X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <43A1ACC1.9090805@student.lu.se> Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 18:49:53 +0100 From: Lennart Borgman User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dave Korn CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Where is patch? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Dave Korn wrote: > Heh, that's true, although there is a handy trick for the package search: >since cygwin runs on windows, all executables use the ".exe" ending in cygwin >packages. Compare: > >http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=as >Cygwin Package List >Search Results >Found 755 matches for as. > > >http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=as.exe >Cygwin Package List >Search Results >Found 8 matches for as.exe. > > > And the answer is that as is the GNU assembler, and it is part of the >binutils package, which lives under the 'Devel' category in setup. > > Thanks for this! That trick is so handy in my opinion so it ought to be as a tip on the search page right under the search box! -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/