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On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 13:32 +0100, Patrick Lauer wrote: |
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> On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 21:01 -0500, Patrick Dawson wrote: |
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> > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> > > Does anyone have any information on what Gentoo/Cygwin is? Who is in |
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> > > charge of this, and is it really at the stage where we should be |
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> > > recruiting people to work on it? |
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> At the moment the project is in hibernation. |
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> Portage is a moving target, and some parts of cygwin are not really |
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> useful for Gentoo-style compilation |
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> (e.g. the linker dies after about 30 program installations) |
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> > I'm *extremely* wary of the idea of |
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> > > this kind of thing being committed without prior discussion -- there's |
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> > > far more difference between anything we currently have and Cygwin than |
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> > > there is between osx or bsd and linux-gnu, and we know how much work |
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> > > those two are already... |
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> Well ... it was a thing I did because it scratched an itch I had. |
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> I don't mind if it won't be integrated into mainline Gentoo for a looong |
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> time ... |
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> > I think Patrick Lauer is the only one who's actually doing stuff with |
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> > Gentoo/Cygwin at the moment, so ask him. Judging by the extreme lack of activity |
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> > on the gentoo-cygwin list, I don't think it's nearly at the stage where |
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> > recruitment should start. |
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> And there won't be any recruitment until there's some significant |
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> progress. |
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How about never. The complexity that this would add and the type of |
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crowd it would bring is just far to lame for mainstream Gentoo. |
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> Even the debian/win32 project has run dry. |
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> If people are really interested in getting Portage/Cygwin working and |
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> want to invest some time they can mail me offlist and I'll see how I can |
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> help them get a better experience with Portage on Cygwin. |
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Great please keep it as an external overlay project. |
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Here is a list of things we can support properly. |
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If it's not listed here then we _Gentoo_ have no business trying to |
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support it. |
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supported BFD targets: |
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elf32-i386 coff-a29k-big a.out.adobe aix5coff64-rs6000 a.out-zero-big |
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a.out-mips-little epoc-pe-arm-big epoc-pe-arm-little epoc-pei-arm-big |
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epoc-pei-arm-little coff-arm-big coff-arm-little a.out-arm-netbsd |
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pe-arm-big pe-arm-little pei-arm-big pei-arm-little b.out.big |
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b.out.little efi-app-ia32 efi-app-ia64 elf32-avr elf32-big elf32-bigarc |
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elf32-bigarm-oabi elf32-bigarm elf32-bigarm-symbian elf32-bigmips |
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elf32-cr16c elf32-cris elf32-crx elf32-d10v elf32-d30v elf32-dlx |
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elf32-fr30 elf32-frv elf32-frvfdpic elf32-h8300 elf32-hppa-linux |
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elf32-hppa-netbsd elf32-hppa elf32-i370 elf32-i386-freebsd |
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elf32-i860-little elf32-i860 elf32-i960 elf32-ia64-hpux-big elf32-ip2k |
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elf32-iq2000 elf32-little elf32-littlearc elf32-littlearm-oabi |
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elf32-littlearm elf32-littlearm-symbian elf32-littlemips elf32-m32r |
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elf32-m32rle elf32-m32r-linux elf32-m32rle-linux elf32-m68hc11 |
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elf32-m68hc12 elf32-m68k elf32-m88k elf32-mcore-big elf32-mcore-little |
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elf32-mn10200 elf32-mn10300 elf32-msp430 elf32-nbigmips |
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elf32-nlittlemips elf32-ntradbigmips elf32-ntradlittlemips |
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elf32-openrisc elf32-or32 elf32-pj elf32-pjl elf32-powerpc |
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elf32-powerpcle elf32-s390 elf32-sh elf32-shbig-linux elf32-shl |
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elf32-shl-symbian elf32-sh-linux elf32-shl-nbsd elf32-sh-nbsd elf32-sh64 |
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elf32-sh64l elf32-sh64l-nbsd elf32-sh64-nbsd elf32-sh64-linux |
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elf32-sh64big-linux elf32-sparc elf32-tradbigmips elf32-tradlittlemips |
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elf32-us-cris elf32-v850 elf32-vax elf32-xstormy16 elf32-xtensa-be |
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elf32-xtensa-le elf64-alpha-freebsd elf64-alpha elf64-big elf64-bigmips |
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elf64-hppa-linux elf64-hppa elf64-ia64-big elf64-ia64-hpux-big |
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elf64-ia64-little elf64-little elf64-littlemips elf64-mmix elf64-powerpc |
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elf64-powerpcle elf64-s390 elf64-sh64 elf64-sh64l elf64-sh64l-nbsd |
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elf64-sh64-nbsd elf64-sh64-linux elf64-sh64big-linux elf64-sparc |
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elf64-tradbigmips elf64-tradlittlemips elf64-x86-64 mmo pe-powerpc |
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pei-powerpc pe-powerpcle pei-powerpcle a.out-cris demo64 ecoff-bigmips |
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ecoff-biglittlemips ecoff-littlemips ecoff-littlealpha coff-go32 |
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coff-go32-exe coff-h8300 coff-h8500 a.out-hp300hpux a.out-i386 |
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a.out-i386-bsd coff-i386 a.out-i386-freebsd a.out-i386-lynx |
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coff-i386-lynx msdos a.out-i386-netbsd i386os9k pe-i386 pei-i386 |
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coff-i860 coff-Intel-big coff-Intel-little ieee coff-m68k coff-m68k-un |
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a.out-m68k-lynx coff-m68k-lynx a.out-m68k-netbsd coff-m68k-sysv |
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coff-m88kbcs a.out-m88k-mach3 a.out-m88k-openbsd mach-o-be mach-o-le |
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mach-o-fat pe-mcore-big pe-mcore-little pei-mcore-big pei-mcore-little |
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pe-mips pei-mips a.out-newsos3 nlm32-alpha nlm32-i386 nlm32-powerpc |
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nlm32-sparc coff-or32-big a.out-pc532-mach a.out-ns32k-netbsd |
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a.out-pdp11 pef pef-xlib ppcboot aixcoff64-rs6000 aixcoff-rs6000 |
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coff-sh-small coff-sh coff-shl-small coff-shl pe-shl pei-shl coff-sparc |
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a.out-sparc-little a.out-sparc-linux a.out-sparc-lynx coff-sparc-lynx |
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a.out-sparc-netbsd a.out-sunos-big sym a.out-tic30 coff-tic30 |
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coff0-beh-c54x coff0-c54x coff1-beh-c54x coff1-c54x coff2-beh-c54x |
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coff2-c54x coff-tic80 a.out-vax-bsd a.out-vax-netbsd a.out-vax1k-netbsd |
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versados vms-alpha vms-vax coff-w65 coff-we32k coff-z8k elf32-am33lin |
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srec symbolsrec tekhex binary ihex trad-core |
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> Patrick |
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> P.S. Small factoid: Starting portage on Win98 causes an immediate |
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> restart ... |
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Ned Ludd <solar@g.o> |
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