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-rw-r--r--README_d/README.alpine7
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diff --git a/README_d/ChangeLog b/README_d/ChangeLog
index 5d24f6d8..6e233b0a 100644
--- a/README_d/ChangeLog
+++ b/README_d/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2018-09-07 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
+
+ * README.alpine: Updated with info about diff.
+
2018-05-12 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
* README.pc: Update with information regarding testing on Windows
diff --git a/README_d/README.alpine b/README_d/README.alpine
index 4df5b450..17f4214c 100644
--- a/README_d/README.alpine
+++ b/README_d/README.alpine
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Wed Aug 23 08:19:08 IDT 2017
+Fri Sep 7 10:34:54 IDT 2018
============================
I have a report that Alpine Linux uses BusyBox for its utilities. In
@@ -11,5 +11,10 @@ Install coreutils on your Alpine Linux system:
in order to get a fully POSIX-compliant ls.
+Similarly, 'make diffout' fails because BusyBox diff doesn't accept
+the -c option. To get a working diff, use:
+
+ apk add diffutils
+
Arnold Robbins
arnold@skeeve.com