From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: cmp missing from base
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2016 18:23:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f1bf90c8-a956-d30e-b12a-8cbff57d4941@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ab6e82.247d6f40.454703d0@aol.com>
On 10/30/2016 4:05 AM, DAGwyn@aol.com wrote:
> 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!
I think the diffutils maintainer intended to add it to Base
(https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2016-05/msg00099.html), but maybe he
forgot. Eric?
Ken
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-30 14:58 DAGwyn
2016-10-30 18:23 ` Ken Brown [this message]
2016-12-06 23:10 ` Eric Blake
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2016-10-30 21:09 Steven Penny
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2016-05-07 1:41 ` Warren Young
2016-05-07 6:20 ` Thomas Wolff
2016-05-09 15:16 ` Warren Young
2016-05-09 18:30 ` Warren Young
2016-05-09 18:58 ` Warren Young
2016-05-09 20:57 ` Eric Blake
2016-05-09 21:29 ` Warren Young
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