Gentoo Archives: gentoo-alt

From: Michael Haubenwallner <haubi@g.o>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] Names of Prefix variants
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 11:37:30
Message-Id: 528B4D66.6080505@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-alt] Names of Prefix variants by heroxbd@gentoo.org
1 On 11/19/2013 11:20 AM, heroxbd@g.o wrote:
2 >>> Also, the proposed solution allows to do the same on non-Linux platforms
3 >>> too, right (e.g. SCU on Darwin).
4
5 > Fabian, do you mean SFU[3]? It's deprecated by Microsoft.
6 > Michael(haubi) and Markus(mduft) refocused the development to cygwin
7 > instead, I suppose.
8 >
9 > 1. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7592069/how-to-build-apples-opensource-libc
10 > 2. http://www.ohloh.net/p/glibc-darwin
11 > 3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX
12
13 It wasn't us doing the Cygwin port - AFAICT Cygwin still isn't stable enough. But we're
14 currently working with Microsoft to find a way again to use the Microsoft toolchain in
15 some POSIX environment as replacement for SFU/SUA, which indeed has been finally thrown
16 away with Windows Server 2012r2 (it has been unstable since Windows Server 2008 anyway).
17
18 /haubi/