From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 118862 invoked by alias); 30 Oct 2016 14:58:33 -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 118851 invoked by uid 89); 30 Oct 2016 14:58:31 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=D*aol.com, DAGwynaolcom, dagwynaolcom, U*DAGwyn X-HELO: limerock02.mail.cornell.edu Received: from limerock02.mail.cornell.edu (HELO limerock02.mail.cornell.edu) (128.84.13.242) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sun, 30 Oct 2016 14:58:21 +0000 X-CornellRouted: This message has been Routed already. Received: from authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (granite4.serverfarm.cornell.edu [10.16.197.9]) by limerock02.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4_cu) with ESMTP id u9UEwJPX011007 for ; Sun, 30 Oct 2016 10:58:19 -0400 Received: from [10.13.22.4] (50-192-26-108-static.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [50.192.26.108]) (authenticated bits=0) by authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.12.10) with ESMTP id u9UEwIoP017881 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Sun, 30 Oct 2016 10:58:19 -0400 Subject: Re: cmp missing from base To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: From: Ken Brown Message-ID: Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2016 18:23:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-Cornell-Gauge: Gauge=X X-PMX-CORNELL-AUTH-RESULTS: dkim-out=none; X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-10/txt/msg00294.txt.bz2 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 -- 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