Hello Eric, Thank you very much for this valuable information. It helped me a lot to find out the latest package.
Thanks & Regards, Eldho -----Original Message----- From: Eric Blake [mailto:ebl...@redhat.com] Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2018 7:28 PM To: Mathai, Eldho (Nokia - IN/Bangalore) <eldho.mat...@nokia.com>; coreutils@gnu.org Subject: Re: Difference in binaries present in old and new versions of gnu tools On 05/03/2018 01:23 AM, Mathai, Eldho (Nokia - IN/Bangalore) wrote: > Hello, > We were using an old version of gnu tools for our software > compilation, now we downloaded the new version (8.29) from the below > address ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.29.tar.xz That is only the coreutils, but your list included a lot of other GNU software projects that are distributed as independent projects, and probably even some non-GNU but open source software. > > After the make install we could see many binaries are missing in the latest > when compared with our existing old version. Can you help me here to know why > these binaries are missing and where can I get the latest versions of these > missing binaries. > Below are the differences: > > Binaries in old version > --------------------------------- > autopoint For example, autopoint is not part of coreutils. Running 'autopoint --version' will tell you that it is part of 'GNU gettext-tools', and therefore you need to find a tarball (or a pre-built binary from a distribution) for gettext-tools. The same is true for all other missing tools that were present on your old machine - there are many more GNU projects than just coreutils. https://www.gnu.org/software/ is a good starting point to learn which packages you will need for which binaries. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org
