[bug-diffutils] Re: new snapshot available: diffutils-2.8.7.131-cc56

[Jim Meyering]

Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> Jim Meyering wrote:
>> A diffutils release is overdue, so here's a snapshot of the latest.
>> In the absence of new bug reports, I expect to release diffutils-2.9
>> some time next week.
>>
>> diffutils snapshot: (.gz files are here, too)
>>    http://meyering.net/diff/diffutils-ss.tar.xz      972 KB
>>    http://meyering.net/diff/diffutils-ss.tar.xz.sig
>>    http://meyering.net/diff/diffutils-2.8.7.131-cc56.tar.xz
>
> Thanks for making .gz still available; right now I can't extract .xz
> on most boxes on which I build toolchains. (If you don't mind, could
> you point me at the source for what I should be using to extract xz? I
> got lost when it went through various name changes and not having a
> gzip-compatible interface.)

Use xz-utils.
(first hit for me when I search for "xz")
http://tukaani.org/xz/

BTW, xz, and lzma before it, have always had a gzip-compatible
command-line interface.

> Also, I am happy to report that I was able to successfully build and
> test on Darwin/ppc. This is a significant improvement over 2.8.1
> which, as I recall, didn't build on Darwin.

Thanks for testing.