Re: version of diff / diff3 for libc5?

On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, John Lumby wrote:

> Thanks Tom.   cmp is sometimes all I need but it doesn't actually show the 
> diff, only a boolean and an offset   (or can it be told to do so?).     I 
> need to be able to see what's different.      Anyway, I had another go at 
> diffutils, using the 2.7 source, and was able to compile that for libc5. 
> Will it fit though?  ...   (Have to wait until next time I can shut down to 
> find out).

Just a small note for next time; I find the debian archive is a good
place for tomsrtbt compatible binaries.
    http://ftp.debian.org/debian-archive/dists/

You want the 1.3.1 version for libc5 stuff.
To unwrap a *.deb without 'dpkg' you can use alien(1) or ar(1) plus tgz.

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Rob.                          (Robert de Bath <robert$ @ debath.co.uk>)
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