From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 25 08:51:59 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 495AB1065689 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 08:51:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from unga888@yahoo.com) Received: from web57003.mail.re3.yahoo.com (web57003.mail.re3.yahoo.com [66.196.97.107]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CEC698FC1E for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 08:51:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from unga888@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 39925 invoked by uid 60001); 25 Sep 2008 08:51:58 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Message-ID; b=zftRrW7SoMH2luX4Wo/UrPe9U5LsChe8EvN87zPspIz2pD9PZns5f/39I6vOJJsIrVHUhL4Gold7N0XJi2V5jTnlxkHn+uPCOI5ksLGxFundkcVqNMfPhCqde05pZqc1GvoYVUCqayst41a6fwr8N6+oMPiYwcFGoVxdPSavcg4=; X-YMail-OSG: x96xPdoVM1kbcK5M4AKzcZzu7oLlMLrxaolNng0MTPGHlDHNhnTMDms2glpN_8cldFVE0rPgwgBZREOqi4DGt6TtIW6QfFLC5_zo5qBl0AzgizbPuoO1r3gDndmwNjHyIUpbzzovMh1PCebpCZQ29LkhBrg- Received: from [220.255.7.223] by web57003.mail.re3.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 01:51:57 PDT X-Mailer: YahooMailWebService/0.7.218.2 Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 01:51:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Unga To: Kris Kennaway In-Reply-To: <48DB3F1A.5060005@FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <17608.77723.qm@web57003.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why not GNU cmp? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: unga888@yahoo.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 08:51:59 -0000 --- On Thu, 9/25/08, Kris Kennaway wrote: > From: Kris Kennaway > Subject: Re: Why not GNU cmp? > To: unga888@yahoo.com > 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