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23 Please send comments and problem reports to <bug-gnu-utils@gnu.org>.
25 If you have a problem with internationalization, you might be able to
26 work around it as described in ABOUT-NLS by invoking `./configure
27 --disable-nls'. Many of the problems arise from dynamic linking
28 issues on non-GNU platforms (e.g. with the iconv library). Such
29 problems tend to be shared by other GNU applications on these
30 platforms, and can usually be fixed by carefully tweaking your non-GNU
31 installation. If you have an older version of libiconv, please
32 upgrade to the latest one, preferably libiconv-1.8 or newer.
33 (libiconv-1.8 is not yet available as of this writing, but it should
34 be out soon.) If the problem seems isolated to diffutils, though,
37 This program requires a Standard C compiler (C89 or later); if you
38 have an older K&R compiler, please install GCC first.
40 If you make changes to the source code, you may need recent test
41 versions of GNU build tools to regenerate the intermediate files. The
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45 * GNU Autoconf 2.53 <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.53.tar.gz>
47 * GNU Automake 1.6 <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.6.tar.gz>
49 * GNU gettext 0.11.1 <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gettext/gettext-0.11.1.tar.gz>
51 * GNU help2man 1.27 <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/help2man/help2man-1.27.tar.gz>
53 * GNU texinfo 4.2 <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-4.2.tar.gz>