GNU Diffutils for VMS - File Comparison Utilities

GNU Diffutils Web Site

• http://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/diffutils.html - Main page

Note that when these kits were prepared, Diffutils 2.8.7 was a "test release", "which should not be used in production". On the other hand, in Diffutils 2.8.1 (which was an official release), the "diff" option "--ignore-file-name-case" did not work properly, and that problem seems to have been solved in Diffutils 2.8.7. (Some GNU/Linux distributions also appear to include Diffutils 2.8.7, so it must be good.)

GNU Diffutils 2.8.7 VMS-Ready Kits

• VMS port notes (as included in the complete kit, below). This document describes the changes required to build GNU Diffutils 2.8.7 on VMS.

  /ftp/diffutils/diffutils-2_8_7b_vms/vms_notes.txt

• Source-only kit, including:
  • Source (original and modified).

  /ftp/diffutils/diffutils-2_8_7b_vms/diffutils-2_8_7b_src.zip

• Complete kit, including:
  • Source (original and modified).
  • Alpha objects and executable (built on VMS V8.3 with HP C V7.3-009).
  • IA64 objects and executable (built on VMS V8.3-1 with HP C V7.3-018).
  • VAX objects and executable (built on VMS V7.3 with Compaq C V6.4-005).

  /ftp/diffutils/diffutils-2_8_7b_vms/diffutils-2_8_7b_vms.zip

  The Zip archives for these kits were created using the Zip "-V" option to preserve the VMS file attributes, but the source files in these Zip archives should be usable on a non-VMS system. The VMS port notes mentioned above (and included in the kit) describe how to restore the original mixed-case and/or multi-dot file names in the kit which have been altered to accomodate the more limited VMS ODS2 file system where this work was done.

GNU Diffutils for VMS Archive

All versions of GNU Diffutils for VMS, including older and experimental ones, may be found at the archive: /ftp/diffutils/

FTP access is also available at: ftp://ftp.antinode.info/diffutils/