On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 12:01:12AM -0500, Mark Blackburn wrote: > >I tried compiling coreutils-5.2.0 and I didn't see many problems with > >that. Another problem I see is that coreutils will cause conflicts with > >other packages: textutils, sh-utils and fileutils. Obviously coreutils > >is intended to replace these packages so these packages would need to be > >withdrawn if coreutils was included with cygwin. > > I don't understand the point of this email. If you are volunteering to > support coreutils, then thanks.
But if he's, let me add 2 things: 1- Last time I tried printf.exe linked against the static libintl (or libiconv), making a huge binary. 2- http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-08/msg00234.html -- http://www.pervalidus.net/contact.html