RE: Difference in binaries present in old and new versions of gnu tools

[Mathai, Eldho (Nokia - IN/Bangalore)]

Hello Eric,
Thank you very much for this valuable information. It helped me a lot to find 
out the latest package.

Thanks & Regards,
Eldho



-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Blake [mailto:address@hidden] 
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2018 7:28 PM
To: Mathai, Eldho (Nokia - IN/Bangalore) <address@hidden>; address@hidden
Subject: Re: Difference in binaries present in old and new versions of gnu tools

On 05/03/2018 01:23 AM, Mathai, Eldho (Nokia - IN/Bangalore) wrote:
> Hello,
> We were using an old version of gnu tools for our software 
> compilation, now we downloaded the new version (8.29) from the below 
> address ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.29.tar.xz

That is only the coreutils, but your list included a lot of other GNU software 
projects that are distributed as independent projects, and probably even some 
non-GNU but open source software.

> 
> After the make install we could see many binaries are missing in the latest 
> when compared with our existing old version. Can you help me here to know why 
> these binaries are missing and where can I get the latest versions of these 
> missing binaries.
> Below are the differences:
> 
> Binaries in old version
> ---------------------------------
> autopoint

For example, autopoint is not part of coreutils.  Running 'autopoint --version' 
will tell you that it is part of 'GNU gettext-tools', and therefore you need to 
find a tarball (or a pre-built binary from a
distribution) for gettext-tools.

The same is true for all other missing tools that were present on your old 
machine - there are many more GNU projects than just coreutils. 
https://www.gnu.org/software/ is a good starting point to learn which packages 
you will need for which binaries.

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