From: | Michael Haubenwallner <haubi@g.o> | ||
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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/ |