> I just installed cygwin, and everything seemed to work fine during > installation. I installed quite a lot of packages, including binutils > (and almost all other devel packages) and all the base packages. I seem > to missing some important stuff though. For example, I don't have 'less' > or 'ldd'. What can I have done wrong?
For less you need to install the less package via setup.exe. For ldd you don't need to install anything as it doesn't exist in cygwin, it is a part of glibc(-common) which cygwin does not use, you can however, use cygcheck[1]. FYI cygwin used newlib as it's libc. If you need a package, and don't find it in the distribution then you can use <http://cygwin.com/packages/> to search for them/it. If they don't appear then they haven't been ported to cygwin. [1] cygcheck requires windows paths as it is a native windows application and uses m$s libc (msvcrt.dll). eg: $ cygcheck $(cygpath -w /bin/cygcheck.exe) $cygcheck $(cygpath -w /bin/perl.exe) Refer to `man cygcheck' for more information ;-) Regards, Elfyn McBratney [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.exposure.org.uk -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
