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Date:	Tue, 7 Aug 2007 19:53:49 +0000 (UTC)
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Eric Blake <ebb9 <at> byu.net> writes:

> According to David Arnstein on 8/7/2007 12:39 PM:
> > Since someone has already provided glib2-devel, is there an easy way to
> > compile a valid gdate.exe for cygwin?
> 
> I have no reason to complicate my packaging of coreutils just to
> add a 'g' prefix.

Following up to myself, if you still want gdate, then you could simply:

ln -s /bin/date /usr/local/bin/gdate

The same goes for other GNU utilities that are often shipped with 'g' prefixes 
on systems with non-GNU counterparts, such as gmake, gtar, ...

-- 
Eric Blake




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