LDP/LDP/guide/docbook/LFS-Current/chapter06/diffutils.xml

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
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<!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
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<sect1 id="ch-system-diffutils" role="wrap">
<?dbhtml filename="diffutils.html"?>
<sect1info condition="script">
<productname>diffutils</productname>
<productnumber>&diffutils-version;</productnumber>
<address>&diffutils-url;</address>
</sect1info>
<title>Diffutils-&diffutils-version;</title>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-diffutils">
<primary sortas="a-Diffutils">Diffutils</primary>
</indexterm>
<sect2 role="package">
<title/>
<para>The Diffutils package contains programs that show the differences
between files or directories.</para>
<segmentedlist>
<segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
<segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
<seglistitem>
<seg>&diffutils-ch6-sbu;</seg>
<seg>&diffutils-ch6-du;</seg>
</seglistitem>
</segmentedlist>
</sect2>
<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of Diffutils</title>
<para>First fix a file so locale files are installed:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i 's:= @mkdir_p@:= /bin/mkdir -p:' po/Makefile.in.in</userinput></screen>
<para>Prepare Diffutils for compilation:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
<para>Compile the package:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
<para>To test the results, issue:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
<para>The test-update-copyright.sh failure can be safely ignored.</para>
<para>Install the package:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="contents-diffutils" role="content">
<title>Contents of Diffutils</title>
<segmentedlist>
<segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
<seglistitem>
<seg>cmp, diff, diff3, and sdiff</seg>
</seglistitem>
</segmentedlist>
<variablelist>
<bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
<?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
<?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
<varlistentry id="cmp">
<term><command>cmp</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Compares two files and reports whether or in which bytes they
differ</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-diffutils cmp">
<primary sortas="b-cmp">cmp</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="diff">
<term><command>diff</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Compares two files or directories and reports which lines in
the files differ</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-diffutils diff">
<primary sortas="b-diff">diff</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="diff3">
<term><command>diff3</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Compares three files line by line</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-diffutils diff3">
<primary sortas="b-diff3">diff3</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="sdiff">
<term><command>sdiff</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Merges two files and interactively outputs the results</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-diffutils sdiff">
<primary sortas="b-sdiff">sdiff</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</sect2>
</sect1>