From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13479 invoked by alias); 30 Oct 2016 08:05:41 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 13456 invoked by uid 89); 30 Oct 2016 08:05:39 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=1.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM,KAM_MXURI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=UD:mx.aol.com, H*r:Interface, H*r:sk:mtaomg-, H*RU:sk:mtaomg- X-HELO: omr-a015e.mx.aol.com Received: from omr-a015e.mx.aol.com (HELO omr-a015e.mx.aol.com) (204.29.186.63) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sun, 30 Oct 2016 08:05:38 +0000 Received: from mtaomg-mad02.mx.aol.com (mtaomg-mad02.mx.aol.com [172.26.221.208]) by omr-a015e.mx.aol.com (Outbound Mail Relay) with ESMTP id 4DF7138000AB for ; Sun, 30 Oct 2016 04:05:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from core-mec05c.mail.aol.com (core-mec05.mail.aol.com [172.27.39.15]) by mtaomg-mad02.mx.aol.com (OMAG/Core Interface) with ESMTP id 19DAE38000082; Sun, 30 Oct 2016 04:05:37 -0400 (EDT) From: DAGwyn@aol.com Full-name: DAGwyn Message-ID: Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2016 14:58:00 -0000 Subject: Re: cmp missing from base To: cygwin@cygwin.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit x-aol-global-disposition: G x-aol-sid: 3039ac1addd05815a9d14f4e X-SW-Source: 2016-10/txt/msg00293.txt.bz2 I was unpleasantly surprised to find that the "cmp" utility had been removed from the Cygwin base, and a search for "cmp" in the Setup installer didn't find it. (It used to exist.) I eventually found it hidden in the "diffutils" package. Upon searching the mailing list I found some discussion, most of it being clueless. "cmp" is widely used in Unix makefiles! It's a basic utility that has been around for over 40 years. Utilities like that are so essential that it disrupts users when they are removed. There is a reason that POSIX specifies them! -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple