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On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 11:44:34AM -0500, Ned Ludd wrote: |
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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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> |
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> supported BFD targets: |
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# file q821982.exe # it's a microsoft patch I had lying around |
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q821982.exe: MS-DOS executable (EXE), OS/2 or MS Windows |
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# objdump -f q821982.exe |
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q821982.exe: file format efi-app-ia32 |
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architecture: i386, flags 0x0000010a: |
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EXEC_P, HAS_DEBUG, D_PAGED |
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efi-app-ia32 is on your BFD target list, so by logical inverse of your |
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statement, we do have business trying to support it. |
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However I will concur that until there is sufficent demand (and I agree this is |
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very hard to measure), getting Gentoo/Cygwin added to the tree probably won't |
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happen. |
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Robin Hugh Johnson |
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