diff --git a/patches/diffutils/jinx-working-patch.patch b/patches/diffutils/jinx-working-patch.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..21dca33d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/patches/diffutils/jinx-working-patch.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+diff --git diffutils-clean/Makefile.am diffutils-workdir/Makefile.am
+index c47bc83..ca1ec3c 100644
+--- diffutils-clean/Makefile.am
++++ diffutils-workdir/Makefile.am
+@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
+ ALL_RECURSIVE_TARGETS =
+ 
+ EXTRA_DIST = bootstrap exgettext ChangeLog-2008 cfg.mk dist-check.mk
+-SUBDIRS = lib src tests doc man po gnulib-tests
++SUBDIRS = lib src tests doc po gnulib-tests
+ 
+ ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I m4
+ AM_CFLAGS = $(WARN_CFLAGS) $(WERROR_CFLAGS)
diff --git a/recipes/diffutils b/recipes/diffutils
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f718aa15
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes/diffutils
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+name=diffutils
+revision=1
+from_source=diffutils
+imagedeps="base-devel"
+hostdeps="xgcc xbinutils"
+deps="mlibc"
+
+build() {
+	cp -rp ${source_dir}/* .
+	./configure --host=x86_64-astral --prefix=${prefix} --disable-docs
+	make -j ${parallelism}
+}
+
+package() {
+	make install DESTDIR=${dest_dir}
+}
diff --git a/source-recipes/diffutils b/source-recipes/diffutils
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..85d3e0cb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/source-recipes/diffutils
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+name=diffutils
+version=3.9
+source_method=tarball
+tarball_url="https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/diffutils/diffutils-${version}.tar.xz"
+tarball_sha512="d43280cb1cb2615a8867d971467eb9a3fa037fe9a411028068036f733dab42b10d42767093cea4de71e62b2659a3ec73bd7d1a8f251befd49587e32802682d0f"
+hostdeps="autoconf automake pkgconfig libtool"
+regenerate() {
+        autoreconf -fvi
+}