On 10/30/2016 4:05 AM, dag...@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?
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