Hey all,
I'm not very great with the inner workings of GNU or Cygwin libc, so
please bear with me if I make any mistakes or misunderstandings.
I was trying to get GNU coreutils to work on Cygwin. Maybe this seems
weird to you guys, because Cygwin has coreutils, but there are a few
reasons:
Hey all,
I'm not very great with the inner workings of GNU or Cygwin libc, so
please bear with me if I make any mistakes or misunderstandings.
I was trying to get GNU coreutils to work on Cygwin. Maybe this seems
weird to you guys, because Cygwin has coreutils, but there are a few
reasons:
dazjorz wrote:
Hey all,
I'm not very great with the inner workings of GNU or Cygwin libc, so
please bear with me if I make any mistakes or misunderstandings.
I was trying to get GNU coreutils to work on Cygwin. Maybe this seems
weird to you guys, because Cygwin has coreutils, but there are
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
dazjorz wrote:
Hey all,
I'm not very great with the inner workings of GNU or Cygwin libc, so
please bear with me if I make any mistakes or misunderstandings.
I was trying to get GNU coreutils to work on Cygwin. Maybe this seems
weird to you guys, because Cygwin
dazjorz wrote:
- Cygwin didn't have md5sum,
Cygwin does have md5sum in coreutils. You can see this at the cygwin
package list:
http://cygwin.com/packages/
by entering 'md5sum.exe' in the search box.
- It should work, and Because I Can is always a valid reason in UNIX
world
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Sjors Gielen wrote:
Did you try with Cygwin coreutils or GNU coreutils? :)
Cygwin's coreutils *is* GNU coreutils, with some patches which you will
find necessary.
Yaakov
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Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
Sjors Gielen wrote:
Did you try with Cygwin coreutils or GNU coreutils? :)
Cygwin's coreutils *is* GNU coreutils, with some patches which you will
find necessary.
[snip]
Dave Korn wrote:
However, you may have to recreate all the cygwin-specific patches
that the
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Sjors Gielen wrote:
I'm trying to create a full Cygwin port for Debian. This means the base
system packages, et cetera. Let's just keep it at I love apt and dpkg for
package managers.
Keep in mind that apt and dpkg will never be able to work completely
on
Hello all,
* Sjors Gielen mailingl...@dazjorz.com wrote:
Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
Sjors Gielen wrote:
Did you try with Cygwin coreutils or GNU coreutils? :)
Cygwin's coreutils *is* GNU coreutils, with some patches which you will
find necessary.
[snip]
Dave Korn wrote:
However, you
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According to Sjors Gielen on 1/18/2009 3:11 PM:
cygwin bash maintainer hasn't managed to send upstream yet...
[snip]
?? Are you using an old version?? It should be fixed by now.
http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-coreut...@gnu.org/msg10188.html
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According to Ed Schouten on 1/18/2009 3:19 PM:
But that's not a proper fix anyway. cat can't just decide to reopen the
file descriptor of the standard output. That even breaks the first
sentence of POSIX:
The cat utility shall read files
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According to Dave Korn on 1/18/2009 2:42 PM:
However, you may have to recreate all the cygwin-specific patches that the
cygwin bash maintainer hasn't managed to send upstream yet...
Not only that, but some of those patches will never be sent
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