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@@ -5,16 +5,16 @@ They add support for: * making GNU Emacs-style backup files * improved interaction with RCS and SCCS * the GNU conventions for option parsing and configuring and compilation. - * better POSIX.2 compliance + * better POSIX compliance They also fix some bugs. See the NEWS and ChangeLog files for details. Tutorial-style documentation for patch is included in the GNU -diffutils package. Unfortunately, the diffutils 2.7 documentation -for `patch' is obsolete; this should be fixed in diffutils 2.8. -In the mean time, see `patch --help', or consult the man page -in this distribution. +Diffutils package; get GNU Diffutils 2.8 or later for up-to-date +documentation for patch. For GNU and Unix build and installation instructions, see the file INSTALL. +Use `configure --disable-largefile' to disable large file support; +this is reportedly necessary on Red Hat GNU/Linux 6.0 to avoid a C library bug. For MS-DOS using DJGPP tools, see the file pc/djgpp/README. For other systems, copy config.hin to config.h and change #undef statements in it to #define as appropriate for your system, @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ and copy Makefile.in to Makefile and set the variables that are enclosed in @ signs as appropriate for your system. Please send bug reports for this version of patch to -bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu. +<bug-patch@gnu.org>. The Free Software Foundation is distributing this version of patch independently because as of this writing, Larry Wall has not released a @@ -33,8 +33,10 @@ Public License. ------ -Copyright 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988 Larry Wall -Copyright 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright (C) 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988 Larry Wall + +Copyright (C) 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1997, 1999, 2002 Free +Software Foundation, Inc. This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by |