Installing Diffutils-2.8.1

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.

Installation of Diffutils

Prepare Diffutils for compilation:

./configure --prefix=/usr

Compile the package:

make

And install it:

make install

Contents of Diffutils

Installed programs: cmp, diff, diff3 and sdiff

Short descriptions

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.