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Re: Coreutils musings...


On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 12:01:12AM -0500, Mark Blackburn wrote:
> >I tried compiling coreutils-5.2.0 and I didn't see many problems with
> >that. Another problem I see is that coreutils will cause conflicts with
> >other packages: textutils, sh-utils and fileutils. Obviously coreutils
> >is intended to replace these packages so these packages would need to be
> >withdrawn if coreutils was included with cygwin.
>
> I don't understand the point of this email.  If you are volunteering to
> support coreutils, then thanks.

But if he's, let me add 2 things:

1- Last time I tried printf.exe linked against the static
libintl (or libiconv), making a huge binary.

2- http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-08/msg00234.html

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