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Date: | Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:24:15 +0100 |
From: | Sjors Gielen <mailinglist AT dazjorz DOT com> |
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To: | Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir AT cohens DOT org DOT il> |
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Subject: | Re: Hosting the Debian/kCygwin port? |
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Tzafrir Cohen schreef: > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 12:49:29AM +0100, Sjors Gielen wrote: >> Hey lists, >> >> I'm working on a project porting the Debian tools to Cygwin. Currently, >> my plan is to: >> - Provide some required patches to the Cygwin team, for example to allow >> a file in use to be removed or modified, since this is required for dpkg >> - Re-compile all packages and patches currently available for Cygwin >> into a Debian .deb >> - Provide either a way to bootstrap Debian onto an existing Cygwin >> installation, or provide installers for a pure Debian/kCygwin >> installation. > > Which libc do you intend to use? > > Cygwin uses newc, IIRC, but I can't find it packaged in Debian so far. > As far as I understand it now, newlib is packed along with Cygwin itself in cygwin1.dll. I'm thinking of a package libcygwin1, which will contain this (and maybe other) dlls. This package will just be created in the process of getting Debian to work on Cygwin :) Sjors -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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