Re: [gentoo-alt] Stating officially with Cygwin

[Al]

> A small case study:
> ~x86-interix support, "currently broken" quote from the lead dev. Not likely
> to get fixed soon. Causes headaches when trying to migrate packages to
> Gentoo Linux.

I wonder what is wrong with interix as it is that similar to Cygwin.
There are two points that come into my mind:

1.) Why do QA-warnings in misc-functions.sh kill emerges?

I have to disable thi line, that makes it all die.  Else every third
package would break. In my understanding a warning is a warning and no
reason to become a blocker. Do I understand something wrong there? Do
I maybe still use an outdated script?

2.) gen_usr_ldscript() in toolchain-funcs.eclass

# @FUNCTION: gen_usr_ldscript
# @USAGE: [-a] <list of libs to create linker scripts for>
# @DESCRIPTION:
# This function generate linker scripts in /usr/lib for dynamic
# libs in /lib.  This is to fix linking problems when you have
# the .so in /lib, and the .a in /usr/lib.  What happens is that
# in some cases when linking dynamic, the .a in /usr/lib is used
# instead of the .so in /lib due to gcc/libtool tweaking ld's
# library search path.  This causes many builds to fail.
# See bug #4411 for more info.

This functions creates symlinks to fix the order in which dynamic
libraries are found with a realtion to libtool. The curious thing is,
that this mechanism doesn't exist on windows. Windows simply uses
$PATH to find the dynamic libraries. Nonetheless, there is code in
this function for interix and winnt.

Is this a mere mistake or is the function highjacked to do something
slightly different in the case of Interix. I would consider to simply
return at the beginnig of the function for windows stuff.

Al