Re: [gentoo-alt] interix preserve-libs

[Markus Duft]

On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 10:54 +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote:
> On 22-07-2009 10:31:42 +0200, Markus Duft wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 10:22 +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote:
> > > On 22-07-2009 10:10:32 +0200, Markus Duft wrote:
> > [snip]
> > >
> > > I think the following will get us up to speed quickly:
> > > - rename the current script to "readpecoff" or something
> > > - ship it with portage for the time being
> >
> > ok. i updated the patch -> attached.
>
> Good, will you apply it to the ebuild?  I'll do my best to apply it
> tonight to portage.

repoman commit done.

>
> > > Then I'd like it when we could get a scanpecoff (like scanmacho and
> > > scanelf, the C-programs from pax-utils) that does the job, replacing
> > > your huge bash-script.
> >
> > puh. i could try to implement such a thing, but to be correct i would
> > need one for interix, and one for windows - that the "readpecoff" script
> > can handle both is more a hack than a solution ;)
> >
> > OTOH - why not..? it feels like a good idea to have such a utility. it
> > could detect wether the file is interix/winnt and handle it correctly -
> > maybe i could also lookup the interix shared library section format from
> > the binutils patch, and implement it there - so that scanpecoff is
> > faster than parsing objdump output all the time...
>
> That's the idea, and also such that we can inspect interix/windwows
> files from Solaris, Darwin, Linux, etc.

hm, i see. that will be some extra effort, since i need some parts of
parity to be able to parse all this, and parity only builds on
windows/interix right now. however the parts i need are portable - so
maybe i need to split into two separate packages... we'll see.

Cheers, Markus

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