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On 09/30/2010 09:04 PM, Al wrote: |
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>> A small case study: |
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>> ~x86-interix support, "currently broken" quote from the lead dev. Not likely |
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>> to get fixed soon. Causes headaches when trying to migrate packages to |
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>> Gentoo Linux. |
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> I wonder what is wrong with interix as it is that similar to Cygwin. |
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> There are two points that come into my mind: |
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> 1.) Why do QA-warnings in misc-functions.sh kill emerges? |
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on interix, a missing or wrong interpreter is not handled correctly, and |
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thus leads to crashes without appropriate error messages. i'm really |
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glad portage now checks for those ;) |
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> 2.) gen_usr_ldscript() in toolchain-funcs.eclass |
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interix is more like a real unix than cygwin; it uses symlinks, etc. |
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also, it does _not_ use PATH to search for libraries, but has propper |
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support for rpath, etc. |
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additionally the x86-winnt profiles, which i started, use the parity |
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compiler for windows [1], which adds support for rpath, lazy loading, |
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unix like shared library building, libtool support, etc, etc. so even on |
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windows, there is not need for PATH hacks, and such. |
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@jeremy: read your previous mail; yes i know, the interix stuff is |
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actually rather unmaintained at the moment. but i plan to change this. i |
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want to get things back to a working state the latest by January next |
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year (i hope i'll succeed ;)). in the meantime - don't pay attention to |
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interix. if patches/keywords disturb you, feel free to remove them - |
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I'll add them back in the version(s) I'll test in the course of |
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"resurrection" :) |
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[1] http://www.sf.net/projects/parity |
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P.S.: i built cygwin support into parity - would be curious if (after i |
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fixed the portage prefix-chaining patch, which is a prerequisite) |
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x86-winnt profiles would work unmodified on cygwin. |
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markus |
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> Al |
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