Eric Blake <ebb9 <at> byu.net> writes: > According to David Arnstein on 8/7/2007 12:39 PM: > > Since someone has already provided glib2-devel, is there an easy way to > > compile a valid gdate.exe for cygwin? > > I have no reason to complicate my packaging of coreutils just to > add a 'g' prefix.
Following up to myself, if you still want gdate, then you could simply: ln -s /bin/date /usr/local/bin/gdate The same goes for other GNU utilities that are often shipped with 'g' prefixes on systems with non-GNU counterparts, such as gmake, gtar, ... -- Eric Blake -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
