RE: [gentoo-alt] FW: x86-winnt

[Markus Duft]

>
> >
> >
> >  $ CBUILD=i586-pc-winnt PREFIX=/opt/gentoo.winnt emerge -v parity
> >

Small update: no CHOST/CBUILD stuff has to be set on the command line. It is enough to set EPREFIX only, the rest is done from the
profiles.

Cheers, Markus

>
> I have one big problem left, where I need some help thinking about it: inside the windows prefix I can
> only emerge some special
> stuff (so no coreutils or such things), so I really have a dependency to the interix prefix where all
> the command line stuff needs
> to be taken from, that I can't build for winnt.
>
> But how can I deal with such dependencies in ebuilds? If, for example, some package had a dependency
> on libtool, which right now
> should be taken from the interix prefix, not the winnt one, then how does portage realize, that
> libtool is installed in the other
> prefix? I could use package.provided , but that would require some manual work... I would prefer an
> automated solution.
>
> The next problem: if the winnt prefix would be aware of packages in the interix prefix, then what
> about packages providing
> 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
> have the wrong format...
>
> Another Problem: lets stick with libtool. It provides some stuff, that belongs to the interix prefix,
> since it has nothing to do
> with winnt, but libtool also provides libltdl, which would be required as winnt build if it is needed
> by some package... how could I
> differentiate if the DEPEND means the libtool facilities used while bootstrapping, or the library?
>
> Any thoughts? Cheers, Markus
>
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