msys coreutils
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GNU coreutils provides a collection of commonly used utilities essential
to a standard POSIX environment.  It comprises the former textutils,
sh-utils, and fileutils packages.

The cygwin port (on which this msys port is based) has several patches.
Because Windows insists on naming executables with a `.exe' suffix,
several of the utilities have been patched to automatically handle this
suffix when given the traditional Unix name with no suffix (`cp',
`install', `ln', and `mv').  Other issues arise because of the
difference between text and binary mounts; some utilities default to
binary mode and others attempt to respect the underlying mount point,
depending on the most common usage pattern of the utility.  `df'
attempts to recognize Cygwin's mount information, but cannot determine
the underlying file systems (FAT, NTFS, NFS, etc.).  Several utilities
(`basename', `dirname', and `mv', for example) have been patched to
recognize that // is distinct from /.  Also, `ls' and `stat' have a
cygwin-specific option, --append-exe, to add .exe to a filename if
needed.

This version has been modified and compiled for use in the MSYS
environment. It should be installed into the / == /usr directory, which
is usually but not always, C:\msys\1.0. It is built with NLS support,
which is why the applications are somewhat larger than corresponding
instances from previous releases.  It is delivered in several sub-packages:

  bin:
    Contains those applications that were historically part of
    the standard MSYS installation.

  ext:
    Contains "the rest" of the coreutils applications (that can
    actually build on msys; for instance, hostid is not present
    because it requires an OS function not provided by msys).

  lang: (optional) the NLS message catalogs.
  doc: documentation
  lic: license files
  src: source code

Runtime requirements:
  msysCORE-1.0.13-2-msys-1.0.13-bin
  libintl-0.17-2-msys-1.0.13-dll-8
  libiconv-1.13.1-2-msys-dll-2
  libtermcap-0.20050421_1-2-msys-1.0.13-dll-0
 
Build requirements (these, or newer)
  MSYS toolchain
    binutils-2.19.51-3-msys-1.0.13-bin
    gcc-3.4.4-3-msys-1.0.13-bin
    w32api-3.14-3-msys-1.0.12-dev
    msysCORE-1.0.13-2-msys-1.0.13-dev

  Devel Tools and Dependent Libraries 
    autoconf-2.65-1-msys-1.0.13-bin
    automake-1.11.1-1-msys-1.0.13-bin
    libiconv-1.13.1-2-msys-1.0.13-bin
    libiconv-1.13.1-2-msys-1.0.13-dev
    gettext-0.17-2-msys-1.0.13-bin
    gettext-0.17-2-msys-1.0.13-dev
    libgettextpo-0.17-2-msys-1.0.13-dll-0
    libtool-2.2.7a-2-msys-1.0.13-bin
    texinfo-4.13a-2-msys-1.0.13-bin
    libtermcap-0.20050421_1-2-msys-1.0.13-dev
   
  MSYS Environment
    perl-5.6.1_2-2-msys-1.0.13-bin
    libcrypt-1.1_1-3-msys-1.0.13-dll-0
    libgdbm-1.8.3-3-msys-1.0.13-dll-3
    zlib-1.2.3-2-msys-1.0.13-dll
    coreutils-5.97-2-msys-1.0.11-bin
    make-3.81-2-msys-1.0.11-bin
    bash-3.1.17-2-msys-1.0.11-bin
    tar-1.23-2-msys-1.0.13-bin
    bzip2-1.0.5-2-msys-1.0.13-bin
    libbz2-1.0.5-2-msys-1.0.13-dll-1
    xz-4.999.9beta_20100401-1-msys-1.0.13-bin
    liblzma-4.999.9beta_20100401-1-msys-1.0.13-dll-1
    file-5.04-2-msys-1.0.13-bin
    grep-2.5.4-2-msys-1.0.13-bin
    sed-4.2.1-2-msys-1.0.13-bin
    gawk-3.1.7-2-msys-1.0.13-bin
    cvs-1.12.13-2-msys-1.0.13-bin
 
Canonical homepage:
  https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/coreutils

Canonical download:
  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/ (unstable releases, like 6.0)
  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/ (stable releases, like 6.6)

License:
  GPLv3+

Language:
  C

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Build instructions:
  unpack coreutils-5.97-3-msys-1.0.13-src.tar.lzma
  ./msys-build-coreutils coreutils-5.97.tar.bz2

This will create:
  coreutils-5.97-3-msys-1.0.13-src.tar.lzma
  coreutils-5.97-3-msys-1.0.13-bin.tar.lzma
  coreutils-5.97-3-msys-1.0.13-ext.tar.lzma
  coreutils-5.97-3-msys-1.0.13-lang.tar.lzma
  coreutils-5.97-3-msys-1.0.13-doc.tar.lzma
  coreutils-5.97-3-msys-1.0.13-lic.tar.lzma

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Test suite results

This section of this document is updated with each new release.
No history is maintained here.

The test results are pretty bad, at first glance: lots of failed or
skipped tests.  However, inspection shows that most of these problems
are artifacts of deliberate msys design choices: `ln -s' makes a copy,
for instance. Actual use seems to bear this out: the tools seem to work
just fine.

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Port Notes:

----------  coreutils-5.97-3 -- 2010 Apr 27 -----------
* Rebuild with latest msys-gcc-3.x compiler, against msys 1.0.13
* Link against DLL version of libintl and libiconv

----------  coreutils-5.97-2 -- 2009 Nov 07 -----------
* 

----------  coreutils-5.97-1 -- 2009 Nov 01 -----------
* First release of coreutils for msys using new packaging standard.