Prefer SRCTOP over CURDIR/../../contrib, etc. However, retain the "up
one level" instances of ../ because they are really relative to this
part of the tree and not a means to find the root of the tree. As
such, it's better to leave them since that further the goal of being
able to move directories if watned to in the future.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D9932
Sponsored by: Netflix
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is to be provided by --suffix). Looking at the usage here in diffutils,
it seems that we can just get rid of the -b .orig stuff. This resolves
a problem that can triggered if we move toward to a more permissively
licensed patch(1) program.
Subject: man pages for diff et al.
I finally got tired of not having man pages for diff and friends, so I
edited the appropriate sections of the texinfo manual into man format.
copying the same files to multiple directories. This should make
things easier when it comes time to update to a newer version of
diffutils.
With this checkin, this brings the netbsd and freebsd diff dists
into sync.
