On 8/31/15, Jim Meyering <j...@meyering.net> wrote: > tags 21023 notabug > thanks > > On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Rodrigo Valiña Gutiérrez > <rodr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> --no-dereference appears in 'diff --help' and 'info diffutils', but >> not in 'man diff'. > > Thanks for the report, but that is unlikely to be a problem with this > upstream diffutils package, since the man page (diff.1) is > automatically generated from the output of diff --help, and the build > machinery to do that has been in place for over a decade. I would > suspect whatever installed your diff man pages or the configuration of > your "man(1)" program -- maybe it is searching in the wrong place.
Thanks for the reply. I downloaded diffutils-3.3.tar.xz and in diffutils-3.3/man/diff.1 does not appear the --no-dereference option. I don't know whether it is re-generated at compile or install time... but at the moment that file does not have the said option.
