cmp missing from base
Ken Brown
kbrown@cornell.edu
Sun Oct 30 18:23:00 GMT 2016
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
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