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Ciao Andrea, |
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> Pardon me, but in my opinion if you're asking this kind of questions, |
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> porting the Gentoo build system (or even any non-trivial application |
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> without upstream support) to a different and basically unsupported |
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> environment is way beyond what you can manage with your current level of |
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> technical expertise. |
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I don't know how far I will get. But if I don't have a lot of |
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experience in the C environment, it doesn't mean that I am out of |
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experience or completly dumb. |
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> In other words, this is not the kind of thing you can solve by |
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> iteratively trying to build, look at what breaks and doing a point fix. |
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It is not a port between two unsupported environments. The Cygwin |
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layer is well supported. Gentoo Prefix does already run on Interix. I |
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only try to reach a wider audience be porting the existing sources to |
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the Cygwin Layer. The gap to close is rather small. |
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> I am not saying it can't be done, but porting is hard and requires an |
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> in-depth knowledge of the source and the target environment, plus a lot |
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> of development experience in both. You should begin with that, instead |
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> of diving head-first into what is all but a simple task. |
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Maybe the learning curve is to steep and I have to give up. I already |
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reached more than expected and I did learn a lot. It's not in vain. I |
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have documented the results of my research detailed in the wiki. |
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Anybody can pick it up at that point and doesn't need to go the way |
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from the very beginning. |
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I am not the first one, who tried and sure I am not the last. I also |
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profit from the documentations of my forerunners. |
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Al |