1Installation instructions specific to GNU Diffutils
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3	Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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5	This file is part of GNU Diffutils.
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7	This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
8	it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
9	the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
10	any later version.
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12	This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
13	but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
14	MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
15	GNU General Public License for more details.
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17	You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
18	along with this program; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to
19	the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
20	Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
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23Please send comments and problem reports to <bug-gnu-utils@gnu.org>.
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25If you have a problem with internationalization, you might be able to
26work around it as described in ABOUT-NLS by invoking `./configure
27--disable-nls'.  Many of the problems arise from dynamic linking
28issues on non-GNU platforms (e.g. with the iconv library).  Such
29problems tend to be shared by other GNU applications on these
30platforms, and can usually be fixed by carefully tweaking your non-GNU
31installation.  If you have an older version of libiconv, please
32upgrade to the latest one, preferably libiconv-1.8 or newer.
33(libiconv-1.8 is not yet available as of this writing, but it should
34be out soon.)  If the problem seems isolated to diffutils, though,
35please report a bug.
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37This program requires a Standard C compiler (C89 or later); if you
38have an older K&R compiler, please install GCC first.
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40If you make changes to the source code, you may need recent test
41versions of GNU build tools to regenerate the intermediate files.  The
42following versions were used to generate the intermediate files in
43this distribution:
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45* GNU Autoconf 2.53 <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.53.tar.gz>
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47* GNU Automake 1.6 <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.6.tar.gz>
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49* GNU gettext 0.11.1 <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gettext/gettext-0.11.1.tar.gz>
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51* GNU help2man 1.27 <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/help2man/help2man-1.27.tar.gz>
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53* GNU texinfo 4.2 <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-4.2.tar.gz>
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