Mail Archives: cygwin/2000/06/09/19:40:04
Ron Parker put me on the track with a pointer to the developers list,
http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2000-02/threads.html#00132
. Thanx! I didn't think of searching the developers list.
I don't need to waste diskspace with duplicate sets of binaries. If /bin
just contains a few (turns out to be quite a few) mandatory binaries, I'm
happy. By 'mandatory', I mean mandatory in the sense that the FHS
<http://www.pathname.com/fhs> defines it in section 3.1, "3.1 /bin
Essential user command binaries (for use by all users)". The FHS list
includes
General commands
cat, chgrp, chmod, chown, cp, date, dd, df, dmesg, echo, ed,
false, kill, ln, login, ls, mkdir, mknod, more, mount, mv, ps,
pwd, rm, rmdir, sed, setserial, sh, stty, su, sync, true, umount,
uname
Restoration commands
tar, gzip, gunzip (link to gzip),zcat (link to gzip
Networking commands
domainname, hostname, netstat, ping
The Cygwin binary tar-balls tend to put most binaries in /bin. That's also
OK, I think; that leaves /usr/bin for most other user commands and
contributions that would otherwise go to /usr/local/bin. My PATH includes
both directories (and /usr/local/bin, and a ~/bin almost in front). Bingo,
no duplicates (except in my ~/bin). The whole idea is to be able to
./configure; make; make install with minimal fuss, as if it was just another
*nix box.
Kind regards
Peter Ring
Earie Boyd wrote:
> You are free to do that yourself. However, I don't want the diskspace
wasted
> with duplicate sets of binaries.
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