Re: [gentoo-user] Shared libraries in Gentoo

[Al <oss.elmar@googlemail.com>]

Ciao Andrea,

> Pardon me, but in my opinion if you're asking this kind of questions,
> porting the Gentoo build system (or even any non-trivial application
> without upstream support) to a different and basically unsupported
> environment is way beyond what you can manage with your current level of
> technical expertise.

I don't know how far I will get. But if I don't have a lot of
experience in the C environment, it doesn't mean that I am out of
experience or completly dumb.

> In other words, this is not the kind of thing you can solve by
> iteratively trying to build, look at what breaks and doing a point fix.
>

It is not a port between two unsupported environments. The Cygwin
layer is well supported. Gentoo Prefix does already run on Interix. I
only try to reach a wider audience be porting the existing sources to
the Cygwin Layer. The gap to close is rather small.

> I am not saying it can't be done, but porting is hard and requires an
> in-depth knowledge of the source and the target environment, plus a lot
> of development experience in both. You should begin with that, instead
> of diving head-first into what is all but a simple task.

Maybe the learning curve is to steep and I have to give up. I already
reached more than expected and I did learn a lot. It's not in vain. I
have documented the results of my research detailed in the wiki.
Anybody can pick it up at that point and doesn't need to go the way
from the very beginning.

I am not the first one, who tried and sure I am not the last. I also
profit from the documentations of my forerunners.

Al