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+SECTION = "base"
+LICENSE = "GPL"
+DESCRIPTION = "Diffutils contains the GNU diff, diff3, \
+sdiff, and cmp utilities. These programs are usually \
+used for creating patch files."
+PR = "r2"
+
+SRC_URI = "${GNU_MIRROR}/diffutils/diffutils-${PV}.tar.gz"
+
+inherit autotools update-alternatives
+
+# 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"
+
+do_install_append () {
+ mv ${D}${bindir}/diff ${D}${bindir}/diff.${PN}
+}
+
+ALTERNATIVE_NAME = "diff"
+ALTERNATIVE_PATH = "diff.${PN}"
+ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "100"