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RE: how to find utilities? is there a hostid command?
- From: "Robinow, David" <drobinow at dayton dot adroit dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 13:19:12 -0400
- Subject: RE: how to find utilities? is there a hostid command?
> From: Ralf Hauser [mailto:ralfhauser@gmx.ch]
> Subject: how to find utilities? is there a hostid command?
>
> Apparently, a man page for hostid.1 already exists since 2001.
> My questions therefore are:
> 1) Is the corresponding command available within cygwin? If
> so, in which
> part?
No.
> 2) How can I find out whether some tools/commands are available under
> cygwin in a deterministic way without downloading and installing
> everything? E.g. the website http://cygwin.com/ doesn't
> appear to have a search function for this purpose.
I'm surprised by this last statement. The link to "find a package or file
in the cygwin release" is rather prominently displayed at http://cygwin.com.
How did you miss this?
The link sends you to http://cygwin.com/packages/ which lets you query.
You should then find that hostid.c exists in the sh-utils packages. It's
not immediately clear why there's no hostid.exe.
The answer is that configure flunks the test for "gethostid" and thus
doesn't build it. I have no idea if there's a reason why "gethostid" is not
implemented. If this interests you, you might search the mailing list
archives.
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