--- On Thu, 9/25/08, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Why not GNU cmp?
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Date: Thursday, September 25, 2008, 3:34 PM
> Unga wrote:
>
> > In my past experience, the GNU ncurses and Flex
> (http://flex.sourceforge.net/) are simple not compatible
> with FreeBSD even though Flex is licensed under BSD. I
> wanted to know whether the GNU cmp is also the same fate
> other than the license because all these GNU tools comes in
> one package, Diffutils.
>
> Both simply are compatible with FreeBSD.
>
Kris, thanks for confirming both GNU cmp and FreeBSD cmp are compatible with
FreeBSD.
I wish FreeBSD guys can finalize the "Porting BSD-licensed text-processing
tools from OpenBSD" soon.
> > I was wondering why FreeBSD wrote their own version of
> cmp. If it just the license, then that's fine. I prefer
> the BSD versions of diff, etc. when available.
>
> You are asking the wrong questions: why did GNU write their
> own version
> of cmp? FreeBSD's dates to 1987.
>
Oops, I didn't know GNU restricted the **truely free** cmp and sugar-coated it
as "Free" :)
Best regards
Unga
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