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From: Markus Duft <mduft@g.o>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: RE: [gentoo-alt] FW: x86-winnt
Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 12:19:19
Message-Id: 007101c8b685$3cb4da10$b61e8e30$@org
In Reply to: RE: [gentoo-alt] FW: x86-winnt by Markus Duft
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3 > $ CBUILD=i586-pc-winnt PREFIX=/opt/gentoo.winnt emerge -v parity
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6 I have one big problem left, where I need some help thinking about it: inside the windows prefix I can only emerge some special
7 stuff (so no coreutils or such things), so I really have a dependency to the interix prefix where all the command line stuff needs
8 to be taken from, that I can't build for winnt.
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10 But how can I deal with such dependencies in ebuilds? If, for example, some package had a dependency on libtool, which right now
11 should be taken from the interix prefix, not the winnt one, then how does portage realize, that libtool is installed in the other
12 prefix? I could use package.provided , but that would require some manual work... I would prefer an automated solution.
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14 The next problem: if the winnt prefix would be aware of packages in the interix prefix, then what about packages providing
15 libraries, which I may need to link? This won't work, if the libs aren't emerged in the winnt prefix again, since otherwise they'd
16 have the wrong format...
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18 Another Problem: lets stick with libtool. It provides some stuff, that belongs to the interix prefix, since it has nothing to do
19 with winnt, but libtool also provides libltdl, which would be required as winnt build if it is needed by some package... how could I
20 differentiate if the DEPEND means the libtool facilities used while bootstrapping, or the library?
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22 Any thoughts? Cheers, Markus
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