Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 01:51:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Unga <unga888@yahoo.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why not GNU cmp? Message-ID: <17608.77723.qm@web57003.mail.re3.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <48DB3F1A.5060005@FreeBSD.org>
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--- On Thu, 9/25/08, Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> > 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
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