The Diffutils package contains programs that show the differences between files or directories.
Approximate build time: 0.1 SBU Required disk space: 7.5 MB |
Official download location for Diffutils (2.8.1):
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/diffutils/
For its installation Diffutils depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed.
Prepare Diffutils for compilation:
./configure --prefix=/usr |
Compile the package:
make |
And install it:
make install |
Installed programs: cmp, diff, diff3 and sdiff
cmp compares two files and reports whether or in which bytes they differ.
diff compares two files or directories and reports which lines in the files differ.
diff3 compares three files line by line.
sdiff merges two files and interactively outputs the results.