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Re: Compiling diffutils requires cmp
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: Compiling diffutils requires cmp |
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Mon, 11 Apr 2005 21:18:40 -0700 |
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Christian Ehrhardt <address@hidden> writes:
> when installing diffutils, configure requires a working version of cmp
The GNU coding standards allow this, for the same reason that they
allow the building of coreutils to rely on a working version of "cp",
and the building of GCC to rely on a working C compiler. There is a
bit of a bootstrapping problem here, but it sounds like you solved it.