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.
