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Re: ls sources
> On 11/03/2010 13:11, Vincent Richomme wrote:
>
>> Thanks but of course I know where to find them! What I first didn't
find
>> was sources of ls, dir ... But now I founf them in coreutils, I thougt
>> you
>> had some patches inside your cygwin repository
>
> All cygwin packages come with self-contained sources installable
through
> setup.exe. Although they depend on the headers and libs from the DLL
there
> are no patches there for them; the patches (if any) are distributed
along
> with
> the upstream source tarball in the related source package.
>
> Also, next time you aren't sure what package contains a given exe:
>
>> $ cygcheck -f /usr/bin/ls.exe
>> coreutils-7.0-2
>>
>> $
>
Thanks I forgot we could download sources from installer.
> Also, we're veering dangerously on topic here.... quickly, someone do
or
> say
> something stupid!
>
Stop that immediately ;-)