DOS ain't dead - BSD alternatives to coreutils

BSD alternatives to coreutils (Developers)

posted by marcov, 21.01.2014, 15:30

> > I don't think BSD guys care any more. :) And utilites are usually not
> much
> > simpler and still require POSIX compatibility.
>
> I've been looking at the POSIX specifications versus what GNU supports and
> POSIX compatibility appears to be much less complicated than the extra
> features added by typical GNU tools.

In recent years (say after 2005), more and more GNUisms have been implemented in the BSD tools.

My guess would be that in the (early-mid) nineties, people prefered the BSD tools for dos porting because they had simpler buildsystem (just make) than GNU with all its autoconf/configure stuff.

> > Well find and xargs are pretty generic utilties.

Both require decent pipe implementations.

> I'm trying to get to the point where I have all the base utilities and
> libraries I need to build the Open Source applications I want on a DOS
> system.

_on_ or _for_ ? Many issues can be avoided by crosscompiling I assume.

P.s. afaik the last non msys (pure mingw) coreutils is also already quite old, 2005 or so.

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