Coreutils musings...

[Mark Blackburn]

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withdrawn if coreutils was included with cygwin.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've tried to correlate all the binaries in textutils, sh-utils and 
fileutils with those in coreutils and here is what I found:

/usr/bin/kill.exe from coreutils conflicts with cygwin-1.5.7-1.
New binaries in coreutils are:
  /usr/bin/[.exe
  /usr/bin/link.exe
  /usr/bin/stat.exe
  /usr/bin/unlink.exe

I appear to be missing su.exe from coreutils but that's because it 
didn't install for whatever reason. Other than that no binaries are 
missing from coreutils that are in sh-utils, textutils and fileutils

If coreutils were to be packaged I would assume that
1) kill would not be included with coreutils so cygwin's kill would not 
get overwritten.
2) The binaries [.exe, link.exe, stat.exe and unlink.exe would be 
included with coreutils.

mark@althor ~/src/coreutils/tmp
$ tar jxf ../coreutils-5.2.0-1.tar.bz2

mark@althor ~/src/coreutils/tmp
$ tmp=`zcat /etc/setup/textutils.lst.gz | grep -e usr/bin/.*.exe`;  for 
i in $tmp ; do ls $i ; done
usr/bin/cat.exe*
usr/bin/cksum.exe*
usr/bin/comm.exe*
usr/bin/csplit.exe*
usr/bin/cut.exe*
usr/bin/expand.exe*
usr/bin/fmt.exe*
usr/bin/fold.exe*
usr/bin/head.exe*
usr/bin/join.exe*
usr/bin/md5sum.exe*
usr/bin/nl.exe*
usr/bin/od.exe*
usr/bin/paste.exe*
usr/bin/pr.exe*
usr/bin/ptx.exe*
usr/bin/sha1sum.exe*
usr/bin/sort.exe*
usr/bin/split.exe*
usr/bin/sum.exe*
usr/bin/tac.exe*
usr/bin/tail.exe*
usr/bin/tr.exe*
usr/bin/tsort.exe*
usr/bin/unexpand.exe*
usr/bin/uniq.exe*
usr/bin/wc.exe*

mark@althor ~/src/coreutils/tmp
$ tmp=`zcat /etc/setup/fileutils.lst.gz | grep -e usr/bin/.*.exe`;  for 
i in $tmp ; do ls $i ; done
usr/bin/chgrp.exe*
usr/bin/chmod.exe*
usr/bin/chown.exe*
usr/bin/cp.exe*
usr/bin/dd.exe*
usr/bin/df.exe*
usr/bin/dir.exe*
usr/bin/dircolors.exe*
usr/bin/du.exe*
usr/bin/install.exe*
usr/bin/ln.exe*
usr/bin/ls.exe*
usr/bin/mkdir.exe*
usr/bin/mkfifo.exe*
usr/bin/mknod.exe*
usr/bin/mv.exe*
usr/bin/rm.exe*
usr/bin/rmdir.exe*
usr/bin/shred.exe*
usr/bin/sync.exe*
usr/bin/touch.exe*
usr/bin/vdir.exe*

mark@althor ~/src/coreutils/tmp
$ tmp=`zcat /etc/setup/sh-utils.lst.gz | grep -e usr/bin/.*.exe`;  for i 
in $tmp ; do ls $i ; done
usr/bin/basename.exe*
usr/bin/chroot.exe*
usr/bin/date.exe*
usr/bin/dirname.exe*
usr/bin/echo.exe*
usr/bin/env.exe*
usr/bin/expr.exe*
usr/bin/factor.exe*
usr/bin/false.exe*
usr/bin/hostid.exe*
usr/bin/hostname.exe*
usr/bin/id.exe*
usr/bin/logname.exe*
usr/bin/nice.exe*
usr/bin/pathchk.exe*
usr/bin/pinky.exe*
usr/bin/printenv.exe*
usr/bin/printf.exe*
usr/bin/pwd.exe*
usr/bin/seq.exe*
usr/bin/sleep.exe*
usr/bin/stty.exe*
ls: usr/bin/su.exe: No such file or directory
usr/bin/tee.exe*
usr/bin/test.exe*
usr/bin/true.exe*
usr/bin/tty.exe*
usr/bin/uname.exe*
usr/bin/users.exe*
usr/bin/who.exe*
usr/bin/whoami.exe*
usr/bin/yes.exe*

mark@althor ~/src/coreutils/tmp
$ cd usr/bin/

mark@althor ~/src/coreutils/tmp/usr/bin
$ for i in *.exe ; do echo -n $i" : ";tmp=`basename $i .exe`; echo 
`cygcheck -f /usr/bin/$tmp` ; done
[.exe :
basename.exe : sh-utils-2.0.15-4
cat.exe : textutils-2.0.21-1
chgrp.exe : fileutils-4.1-2
chmod.exe : fileutils-4.1-2
chown.exe : fileutils-4.1-2
chroot.exe : sh-utils-2.0.15-4
cksum.exe : textutils-2.0.21-1
comm.exe : textutils-2.0.21-1
cp.exe : fileutils-4.1-2
csplit.exe : textutils-2.0.21-1
cut.exe : textutils-2.0.21-1
date.exe : sh-utils-2.0.15-4
dd.exe : fileutils-4.1-2
df.exe : fileutils-4.1-2
dir.exe : fileutils-4.1-2
dircolors.exe : fileutils-4.1-2
dirname.exe : sh-utils-2.0.15-4
du.exe : fileutils-4.1-2
echo.exe : sh-utils-2.0.15-4
env.exe : sh-utils-2.0.15-4
expand.exe : textutils-2.0.21-1
expr.exe : sh-utils-2.0.15-4
factor.exe : sh-utils-2.0.15-4
false.exe : sh-utils-2.0.15-4
fmt.exe : textutils-2.0.21-1
fold.exe : textutils-2.0.21-1
head.exe : textutils-2.0.21-1
hostid.exe : sh-utils-2.0.15-4
hostname.exe : sh-utils-2.0.15-4
id.exe : sh-utils-2.0.15-4
install.exe : fileutils-4.1-2
join.exe : textutils-2.0.21-1
kill.exe : cygwin-1.5.7-1
link.exe :
ln.exe : fileutils-4.1-2
logname.exe : sh-utils-2.0.15-4
ls.exe : fileutils-4.1-2
md5sum.exe : textutils-2.0.21-1
mkdir.exe : fileutils-4.1-2
mkfifo.exe : fileutils-4.1-2
mknod.exe : fileutils-4.1-2
mv.exe : fileutils-4.1-2
nice.exe : sh-utils-2.0.15-4
nl.exe : textutils-2.0.21-1
nohup.exe : sh-utils-2.0.15-4
od.exe : textutils-2.0.21-1
paste.exe : textutils-2.0.21-1
pathchk.exe : sh-utils-2.0.15-4
pinky.exe : sh-utils-2.0.15-4
pr.exe : textutils-2.0.21-1
printenv.exe : sh-utils-2.0.15-4
printf.exe : sh-utils-2.0.15-4
ptx.exe : textutils-2.0.21-1
pwd.exe : sh-utils-2.0.15-4
readlink.exe : cygutils-1.2.4-1
rm.exe : fileutils-4.1-2
rmdir.exe : fileutils-4.1-2
seq.exe : sh-utils-2.0.15-4
sha1sum.exe : textutils-2.0.21-1
shred.exe : fileutils-4.1-2
sleep.exe : sh-utils-2.0.15-4
sort.exe : textutils-2.0.21-1
split.exe : textutils-2.0.21-1
stat.exe :
stty.exe : sh-utils-2.0.15-4
sum.exe : textutils-2.0.21-1
sync.exe : fileutils-4.1-2
tac.exe : textutils-2.0.21-1
tail.exe : textutils-2.0.21-1
tee.exe : sh-utils-2.0.15-4
test.exe : sh-utils-2.0.15-4
touch.exe : fileutils-4.1-2
tr.exe : textutils-2.0.21-1
true.exe : sh-utils-2.0.15-4
tsort.exe : textutils-2.0.21-1
tty.exe : sh-utils-2.0.15-4
uname.exe : sh-utils-2.0.15-4
unexpand.exe : textutils-2.0.21-1
uniq.exe : textutils-2.0.21-1
unlink.exe :
uptime.exe : procps-010801-2
users.exe : sh-utils-2.0.15-4
vdir.exe : fileutils-4.1-2
wc.exe : textutils-2.0.21-1
who.exe : sh-utils-2.0.15-4
whoami.exe : sh-utils-2.0.15-4
yes.exe : sh-utils-2.0.15-4

Mark Blackburn