Installing Diffutils-2.8.1

Estimated build time:           0.39 SBU
Estimated required disk space:  10 MB

Contents of Diffutils

Last checked against version 2.8.1.

The programs from this package show you the differences between two files or directories. It's most common use is to create software patches.

Diffutils installs the following files:

Program Files

cmp, diff, diff3 and sdiff

Diffutils Installation Dependencies

Last checked against version 2.7.

Bash: sh
Binutils: ld, as
Diffutils: cmp
Fileutils: chmod, cp, install, mv, rm
Gcc: cc1, collect2, cpp0, gcc
Grep: egrep, grep
Make: make
Sed: sed
Sh-utils: date, hostname
Textutils: cat, tr

Installation of Diffutils

Prepare Diffutils to be compiled:

LDFLAGS="-static" CPPFLAGS=-Dre_max_failures=re_max_failures2 \
����./configure --prefix=$LFS/static --disable-nls

The meaning of the configure options are:

Continue with compiling the package:

make

And finish off installing the package:

make install