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I've been trying to build a gentoo installation on Interix. |
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I've been following the instructions at |
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http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/prefix/bootstrap-macos.xml |
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First issue I ran into was the bug that I mailed to grobian. |
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=================================================================== |
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--- bootstrap-prefix.sh.orig Mon Jun 4 00:53:50 2007 |
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+++ bootstrap-prefix.sh Mon Jun 4 01:38:15 2007 |
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@@ -523,6 +523,7 @@ |
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exit 1 |
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;; |
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esac |
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+ MAKE=make |
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;; |
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*) |
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eerror "Nothing known about platform `uname -s`." |
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Next issue was with findutils. It couldn't determine how to get the list |
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of mounted filesystems. |
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I found a patch for gnulib (included in findutils) at |
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<http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-coreutils@×××.org/msg05403.html>. |
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I don't know whether or not it is GPL clean, as it has not been included |
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in gnulib CVS. |
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Even so, I have made a correction to it, and added a check in |
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"gnulib/m4/ls-mntd-fs.m4". |
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See "gnulib-interix.patch". |
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I reckon that it would be good if one could enumerate all of the mounts, |
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rather than having only one directory to scan. |
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I am now up to trying to `emerge --oneshot sed`, but am getting "masked |
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by: corruption". This could be due to the lacking md5sum, sha1sum, etc. |
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On trying to build coreutils to attempt to fix this, I came upon the |
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same problem as with findutils. |
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I'll probably ask bug-gnulib@×××.org what happened to the patch for |
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Interix - whether it is clean or not. |
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I'll also get back on the progress of the install. I'll most likely have |
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to bring Interix back to a clean slate, as I had attempted to install a |
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non-prefix gentoo on it. |
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Keep up the good work. |
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