X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=EJKsYPM61J+Jgh7Y io18e67lvInBFvLbF0IkGn2mTwkJa1zdj5hvW9/Nxr0d0NEQLucedW79/K06XZgN un8DvDQflMa0GPZeKuExaen/+addw/HKhxSjRQNNaevhfYxEFKZ+dFLobkAjWwmM V27rZM/FaB0QDXoRr06i+qMco0U= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=QoyybRSw3ZaG7wdAghU6hQ 2QFbc=; b=hKZ7C1ciMNhgO2gHvCUAlkXJhjaYe4bA2UVKayhZNPWUlATMFIwZw7 ce7CTcmXlwHQwUp/T1YW2YqNSSBtNso6hKHh7BmnORA81zvlPvp1JQlBR7hhdymL o4w1IHFXDv9vBJBNFM8Tmp62CZCIcl02apLf566R3H5udCEN7EsTk= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 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 X-CornellRouted: This message has been Routed already. Subject: Re: cmp missing from base To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: From: Ken Brown Message-ID: Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2016 10:58:15 -0400 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 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