Gentoo Archives: gentoo-alt

From: Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] Names of Prefix variants
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 15:48:42
Message-Id: 20131119154833.GB14777@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-alt] Names of Prefix variants by heroxbd@gentoo.org
1 On 19-11-2013 19:20:38 +0900, heroxbd@g.o wrote:
2 > Ruud Koolen <redlizard@g.o> writes:
3 >
4 > >> Also, the proposed solution allows to do the same on non-Linux platforms
5 > >> too, right (e.g. SCU on Darwin).
6 > >
7 > > I have no idea what SCU is, but the proposed solution allows a standalone
8 > > variant profile on any system for which we have a libc.
9 >
10 > In principle, yes. Somebody needs to succeed in compiling it
11 > though[1,2].
12 >
13 > Fabian, do you mean SFU[3]? It's deprecated by Microsoft.
14 > Michael(haubi) and Markus(mduft) refocused the development to cygwin
15 > instead, I suppose.
16
17 No, I actually just meant something like "libc"[1] indeed... (but had
18 CSU in mind)
19
20 [1] http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/Libc/Libc-997.1.1/
21
22
23 > 1. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7592069/how-to-build-apples-opensource-libc
24 > 2. http://www.ohloh.net/p/glibc-darwin
25 > 3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX
26 >
27
28 --
29 Fabian Groffen
30 Gentoo on a different level

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