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+DESCRIPTION = "Diffutils contains the GNU diff, diff3, \
+sdiff, and cmp utilities. These programs are usually \
+used for creating patch files."
+SECTION = "base"
+LICENSE = "GPLv3+"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504"
+
+PR = "r0"
+
+SRC_URI = "${GNU_MIRROR}/diffutils/diffutils-${PV}.tar.gz"
+
+inherit autotools 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_linux-uclibc = "--without-included-regex"
+
+ALTERNATIVE_LINKS = "${bindir}/diff ${bindir}/cmp"
+ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "100"
+
+SRC_URI[md5sum] = "684aaba1baab743a2a90e52162ff07da"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "2fb91f65bbae3c6043b85ba23967f27235b12928da8e406dc91b48b0a589e809"