This is an alpha distribution for GNU wdiff 0.5.2.

* The `wdiff' program per se did not change much, besides using more recent
Autoconf, Automake and GNU gettext engineering, and correcting a few bugs.

* The `unify' program converts between context diffs to unified diffs,
and vice-versa.  It has been contributed by Wayne Davison, from Borland.

* The `mdiff' program is still very experimental.  It studies possibly many
input files, and find repeated blocks of identical lines in the whole set.
Output format is fairly crude, and should be improved per your suggestions.

There are a few very good suggestions pending for `wdiff', independent
of prior integration with `diff'.  Next prereleases will address them.
The `cbars' program is prepared, but not automatically installed.

See files `README' and `ABOUT-NLS' in the distribution.  You may report
problems to `wdiff-bugs@gnu.ai.mit.edu' or, for other or better opinions
than mine :-), to the mailing list `wdiff-forum@iro.umontreal.ca'.


Full maintenance requires Autoconf 1.12 or better.  It also needs Automake
1.1l, available as ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/tromey/automake-1.1l.tar.gz,
but with the following patch applied:


0 pinard@icule:~/pub/gnu $ getdiffs automake-1.1l
--- automake-1.1l/automake.in	1997/02/12 01:05:52	1.1
+++ automake-1.1l/automake.in	1997/02/12 01:06:15
@@ -3391,7 +3391,7 @@
 	}
 	if (/$AC_SUBST_PATTERN/o)
 	{
-	    $configure_vars{$1} = 1;
+	    $configure_vars{$1} = 1 if $1 ne '$1';
 	}
 
         $seen_decl_yytext = 1 if /AC_DECL_YYTEXT/;
--- automake-1.1l/m4/header.m4	1997/02/12 01:43:24	1.1
+++ automake-1.1l/m4/header.m4	1997/02/12 01:43:29
@@ -8,5 +8,5 @@
 dnl that is generated.  We must strip everything past the first ":",
 dnl and everything past the last "/".
 AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS(changequote(<<,>>)dnl
-test -z "<<$>>CONFIG_HEADER" || echo timestamp > patsubst(<<$1>>, <<^\([^:]*/\)?.*>>, <<\1>>)stamp-h<<>>dnl
+test -z "<<$>>CONFIG_HEADERS" || echo timestamp > patsubst(<<$1>>, <<^\([^:]*/\)?.*>>, <<\1>>)stamp-h<<>>dnl
 changequote([,]))])
