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Section 5 - Building the Base System Tools

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GNU Diffutils

Name: GNU Diffutils
Summary: Tools for displaying differences between files and directories
License: GPL v3 or later
Version: 3.12
URL: https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/diffutils/diffutils-3.12.tar.xz

Average Build Time: 0.5 SBU
Used Install Space: 2.8 MiB

Configuration

To configure GNU Diffutils for install into the build root, run the following command:

./configure --prefix=/usr                           \
            --libdir=/usr/lib64                     \
            --libexecdir=/usr/lib64                 \
            --docdir=/usr/share/doc/diffutils-3.12

Compilation and Installation

To compile GNU Diffutils, run the following command:

make

Next, run the test suite:

make check

Finally, to install GNU Diffutils into the build tree, run the following command:

make install

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Installed Programs	cmp, diff, diff3, and sdiff

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