From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OtgEx-0005yx-04 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 09 Sep 2010 12:28:31 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A90BBE05F5; Thu, 9 Sep 2010 12:28:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gy0-f181.google.com (mail-gy0-f181.google.com [209.85.160.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86593E05F5 for ; Thu, 9 Sep 2010 12:28:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gyf1 with SMTP id 1so779027gyf.40 for ; Thu, 09 Sep 2010 05:28:20 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=+Oa7fkSmQWC4iWVJMWvtpvlJowlD0/6tf+2oJuXyYRw=; b=mKZaGVqIzgGzc0qg2qlww94rYjhgZHd0/qImqB30uT4TdWNc7CTvvC0R0xCIKzfEMw HDDChkDB6I8XcJ8wP00sNH82IPQ9rT5MjX6M3VCrrqods5IF0W4Tp4mMX9IMLMWdAJ2S 3pF+eTzu4ke2MoIhv0eFQ01FlzKTckK0radRw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=hml83nOyzsjeqrnTFHJaJace6t94QT3WkcVsK1G2XBKi3x7VR+iGl9t35J/ffdVIG4 EQc5hXY4aRFGEJM9EGMdj/eAPOhIHSldcwsfXDHadtWCKLwgqiVLY8H4g8tK0O2iqJKX 2av9nelV5jtpv3DHU1OGPhUgvuesAr/FtihQ4= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.150.68.4 with SMTP id q4mr169775yba.261.1284035299913; Thu, 09 Sep 2010 05:28:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.231.37.138 with HTTP; Thu, 9 Sep 2010 05:28:19 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4C88C107.4030708@alyf.net> References: <201009071840.12491.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <201009072320.54829.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <20100909023616.GB15206@nibiru.local> <4C88C107.4030708@alyf.net> Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 14:28:19 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Shared libraries in Gentoo From: Al To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: 1db083d1-ebf8-4d1c-adc8-617107a70071 X-Archives-Hash: 23e6c24672b2c861b0bb4af8ead9c029 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