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pjk:

--- Quote ---rm is not part of MinGW. The rm executable shipped with RC2 comes from the wxWidgets "extra" package: ftp://biolpc22.york.ac.uk/pub/ports/mingw32/extra.zip

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The extra packages comes from unxutils unxutils.sourceforge.net

yop:

--- Quote from: pjk on May 14, 2006, 02:01:01 pm ---The extra packages comes from unxutils unxutils.sourceforge.net

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Cool, thanks :D

thomas:

--- Quote from: pjk on May 14, 2006, 02:01:01 pm ---
--- Quote ---rm is not part of MinGW. The rm executable shipped with RC2 comes from the wxWidgets "extra" package: ftp://biolpc22.york.ac.uk/pub/ports/mingw32/extra.zip

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The extra packages comes from unxutils unxutils.sourceforge.net

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That is not quite true, and even dangerous.

The files shipped with RC2 are from the wxWidgets package. Fullstop.

It is true that the files contained in this wxWidgets "extra" package were taken from the unxutils package by J. Smart back in 2000. However, the current unxutils files are different from the "extras" files, and they are different from the files found in the MinGW distribution, too.

Most importantly, the unxutils package contains make 3.78!

This means that if you install this archive overwriting the existing files on your hard disk, you will break your MinGW installation! Many source distributions (including wxWidgets) require make 3.8 to compile. If you replace it with make 3.78, you will get strange, unexplainable errors.
The "extras" archive only contains a very limited choice of "basic tools", no build tools. Thus, the "extras" archive is safe to unzip, while the other one is not.

pjk:
Thank you Thomas that is good advice.
It hadn't occured to be that anyone would unzip the unxutil over a mingw installation, rather than extracting the utilities that were needed.
The point I was trying to make is that these utilities are not part of wxwidgets and the status of their license  is unclear. I suspect this why they are not part of mingw in the first place.

lfm:
Thank you very much.

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