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+SUMMARY = "Diffutils contains tools used for finding differences between files"
+DESCRIPTION = "Diffutils contains the GNU diff, diff3, \
+sdiff, and cmp utilities. These programs are usually \
+used for creating patch files."
+SECTION = "base"
+
+inherit autotools texinfo update-alternatives gettext
+
+# diffutils assumes non-glibc compilation with uclibc and
+# this causes it to generate its own implementations of
+# standard functionality.  regex.c actually breaks compilation
+# because it uses __mempcpy, there are other things (TBD:
+# see diffutils.mk in buildroot)
+EXTRA_OECONF_libc-uclibc = "--without-included-regex"
+
+ALTERNATIVE_${PN} = "diff cmp"
+ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "100"
+