Re: cmp missing from base

2016-12-06 Thread Eric Blake
On 10/30/2016 09:58 AM, Ken Brown wrote: > On 10/30/2016 4:05 AM, dag...@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

Re: cmp missing from base

2016-10-30 Thread Steven Penny
> There is a reason that POSIX specifies them! Agreed. Both "cmp" and "diff" are required by POSIX: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/idx/utilities.html -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: ht

Re: cmp missing from base

2016-10-30 Thread Ken Brown
On 10/30/2016 4:05 AM, dag...@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 sear

Re: cmp missing from base

2016-10-30 Thread DAGwyn
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 discuss

Re: cmp missing from base

2016-05-09 Thread Warren Young
On May 9, 2016, at 2:57 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > > On 05/09/2016 12:29 PM, Warren Young wrote: >> RHEL’s coreutil depends on gmp, while Cygwin’s does not, but this does not >> tell us that Cygwin’s coreutils should be rebuilt to depend on gmp. > > Umm, the cygwin build of coreutils DOES depend o

Re: cmp missing from base

2016-05-09 Thread Eric Blake
On 05/09/2016 12:29 PM, Warren Young wrote: >>> I think the diffutils package should be part of the base installation. Based on just the start of the thread, I was already considering adding diffutils to Base the next time I package it... > 3. We can also exclude all libraries. Discussions of wh

Re: cmp missing from base

2016-05-09 Thread Warren Young
On May 9, 2016, at 12:29 PM, Warren Young wrote: > > On May 6, 2016, at 7:41 PM, Warren Young wrote: >> >> On May 6, 2016, at 3:53 AM, Thomas Wolff wrote: >>> >>> after a recent fresh installation of cygwin, I was surprised that `cmp` was >>> missing, which is part of the traditional Unix ba

Re: cmp missing from base

2016-05-09 Thread Warren Young
On May 6, 2016, at 7:41 PM, Warren Young wrote: > > On May 6, 2016, at 3:53 AM, Thomas Wolff wrote: >> >> after a recent fresh installation of cygwin, I was surprised that `cmp` was >> missing, which is part of the traditional Unix base commands. >> I think the diffutils package should be part

Re: cmp missing from base

2016-05-09 Thread Warren Young
On May 7, 2016, at 12:20 AM, Thomas Wolff wrote: > > Am 07.05.2016 um 03:41 schrieb Warren Young: >> On May 6, 2016, at 3:53 AM, Thomas Wolff wrote: >>> after a recent fresh installation of cygwin, I was surprised that `cmp` was >>> missing, which is part of the traditional Unix base commands.

Re: cmp missing from base

2016-05-06 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 07.05.2016 um 03:41 schrieb Warren Young: On May 6, 2016, at 3:53 AM, Thomas Wolff wrote: after a recent fresh installation of cygwin, I was surprised that `cmp` was missing, which is part of the traditional Unix base commands. I think the diffutils package should be part of the base instal

Re: cmp missing from base

2016-05-06 Thread Warren Young
On May 6, 2016, at 3:53 AM, Thomas Wolff wrote: > > after a recent fresh installation of cygwin, I was surprised that `cmp` was > missing, which is part of the traditional Unix base commands. > I think the diffutils package should be part of the base installation. We’ve never really had a hard