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Re: GNU coreutils does not work on Cygwin because of freopen() ?
- From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:20:07 -0500
- Subject: Re: GNU coreutils does not work on Cygwin because of freopen() ?
- References: <49738867.702@dazjorz.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
dazjorz wrote:
Hey all,
I'm not very great with the inner workings of GNU or Cygwin libc, so
please bear with me if I make any mistakes or misunderstandings.
I was trying to get GNU coreutils to work on Cygwin. Maybe this seems
weird to you guys, because Cygwin has coreutils, but there are a few
reasons:
- Cygwin didn't have md5sum, GNU coreutils did (and I need md5sum)
<http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=bin%2Fmd5sum>
Did you miss this?
- It should work, and "Because I Can" is always a valid reason in UNIX
world
- I'm trying to bootstrap Debian on Cygwin, and coreutils from Debian is
my first try; getting coreutils from Cygwin may be done later.
However, I noticed there are some very weird bugs happening. See for
example, this bug in cat (don't look at the title of the page, I blamed
bash first)
http://paster.dazjorz.com/?p=3845
Your example works fine for me with the latest coreutils. Perhaps you're
working with a buggy locally built version?
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