For information on vddiff please visit the project web page.

The source code is downloaded with

git clone https://github.com/n-t-roff/vddiff.git

and can be updated with

git pull

(latest changes are notified in the change log).

It is suggested (but not required) to install the speed optimized AVL library libavlbst. Further run time dependencies are:

• less for viewing text file contents
• vim for the file diff and merging operation
• Tools to decompress files and archives: tar, gzip, bzip2, xz and unzip

Some configuration can be done in Makefile.in:

• Path PREFIX (default /usr/local) is prepended for each file to install and for searching the library libavlbst. If this library is used and is not installed in the PREFIX tree, INCDIR and LIBDIR need to be adjusted.
• The manpage is installed in ${MANDIR}/man1. Default for MANDIR is ${PREFIX}/share/man. On some systems this might better be changed to ${PREFIX}/man.

vddiff is build and installed with

$ ./configure
$ make
$ su
# make install
# exit
$ make distclean

Please report problems and feature requests on the issue list or write a mail to troff@arcor.de in case of any question or suggestion.