Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: "Dave Korn" To: Subject: RE: coreutils-5.3.0-8: lost *.exe Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 18:23:34 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: Message-ID: ----Original Message---- >From: Igor Pechtchanski >Sent: 12 July 2005 18:02 > On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Dave Korn wrote: > >> ----Original Message---- >>> From: fergus >>> Sent: 12 July 2005 17:31 >> >>> I have just upgraded to coreutils-5.3.0-8 and I find hat I have lost >>> cp, ls, md5sum executables to name just a few. Windows Explorer shows >>> that these no longer exist in /bin/. Anything I can or should do, or >>> should have done differently? >> >> Well, I think the first thing you should have done differently is, >> before you even began, asked yourself "Why am I doing this?" (upgrading >> your coreutils, that s). >> >> Why did you do it? > > As if setup leaves you any choice. . You have the choice of whether or not to run setup. As per my other post, I defy anyone to justify, in practical cost-benefit analysis terms, the habit of frequently re-running setup. > FWIW, looks like the coreutils upload didn't get the actual package > tarball -- see . LOL, that's actually quite funny! Fergus, you'd better rollback your coreutils until it's fixed :) cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- 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/