Hi Matthew,
On 1/29/2025 12:16 AM, Matthew "mirage335" Hines via Cygwin wrote:
/usr/bin/col.exe is apparently missing from the more recent version of the
'util-linux' package 'util-linux-2.40.2-1'
https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-cat.cgi?file=x86_64%2Futil-linux%2Futil-linux-2.39.3-2&grep=util-linux
https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-cat.cgi?file=x86_64%2Futil-linux%2Futil-linux-2.40.2-1&grep=util-linux
This showed up as a difference between the binReport for the most recent
build of this 'ubcp' software:
https://github.com/mirage335-colossus/ubiquitous_bash/releases
[...helpful evidence elided here...]
Looking at the man page for col (Cygwin man page seems identical) it would
seem this is a useful utility:
col(1): filter reverse line feeds from input - Linux man page
<https://linux.die.net/man/1/col>
So uh, why was this removed? Is this just a bug?
Evidently just a bug. In my build tree for the release there are object
files for the other text-utils programs but not col.o. How odd.
I'll investigate this and update util-linux in the coming days.
Thanks for the report!
..mark
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