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Re: gdate command
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, ...
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Eric Blake
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