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 This is a test version of diffutils.
+
+This is a *pre-release* version, and not ready for production use yet.
 Please send comments and problem reports to <bug-gnu-utils@gnu.org>.
+
+If you have taken the sources from CVS you will need the following
+packages (or later) to build GNU diffutils.  We don't make any extra effort
+to accommodate older versions of these packages, so please make sure
+that you have the latest stable version.
+
+- Automake <http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/>
+- Autoconf <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/>
+- Gettext <http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/>
+- Gzip <http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/>
+- M4 <http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/>
+- Wget <http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/>
+
+As of this writing, the latest stable version of Gzip is 1.2.4 but we
+suggest using test version 1.3.5 (or later, if one becomes available).
+
+Valgrind <http://valgrind.org/> is also highly recommended, if
+Valgrind supports your architecture.
+
+Before building the package, run "bootstrap".  It obtains various
+additional files from the CVS repository and the Translation Project
+site and prepares the source directory for building.
+
+When run without arguments, bootstrap will try to obtain gnulib and
+files from their corresponding CVS repositories on Savannah.  Then, it
+will fetch the po files from the page at Translation Project, and,
+finally, it will start the autoconfiguration process.  Simply running
+it without arguments should do in most cases.  Several options allow
+to control the behavior of bootstrap:
+
+ --gnulib-srcdir=DIRNAME      Specify the local directory where gnulib
+                              sources reside. Use this if you already
+                              have gnulib sources on your machine, and
+                              do not want to waste your bandwidth dowloading
+                              them again.
+
+ --cvs-user=USERNAME          Set the CVS username to be used when accessing
+                              the gnulib repository.
+
+ --skip-po                    Do not download po files.
+
+Notice also that when using CVS authentication method "ext", bootstrap
+will set the variable CVS_RSH to "ssh", unless it is already set to
+some other value.
+
+
+
+Copyright (C) 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+This file is part of GNU diffutils.
+
+GNU diffutils is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
+any later version.
+
+GNU diffutils is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+along with diffutils; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to
+the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
+Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.