Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 17:57:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius <tom@uniserve.com> To: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GNU utilities are old. Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970512175524.24093c-100000@haven.uniserve.com> In-Reply-To: <3377CBF7.120C@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co>
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On Mon, 12 May 1997, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: > Hello, > I use 2.2.1-Release, but I think this problem also affects current. > After noticing our version of GNU tar is old, I looked at other tools > and found the following distributions in our tree are (sometimes very) > old: > binutils-2.8 > bc-1.04 > cpio-2.4.2 > cvs-1.9 > gawk-3.0.2 > patch-2.2 > ptx-0.4 > texinfo-3.9 > I think ed and flex are also outdated. It would be good to do some > maintainance on this. > > --Pedro. > Many of these items have FreeBSD patches applied. They are not pure GNU. I belive that the binutils have been heavily modified. Tom
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