X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4C7FFE28.1010808@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:42:32 -0600 From: Eric Blake User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100806 Fedora/3.1.2-1.fc13 Mnenhy/0.8.3 Thunderbird/3.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: .exe magic in Cygwin References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On 09/02/2010 01:25 PM, Al wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to estimate the expenses to port general linux sources to Cygwin. > > I did look into Cygwins patch for coreutils. It has 1231 lines of diff > code. A lot of the stuff is related to the ".exe" magic done by > cygwin. > > Do I have to implement that magic in this extend into every package > that I would like to run on Cygwin or is this rather special in the > case of coreutils? Coreutils tends to be an exception, because it is so core to the system. Other tools that I also maintain, like m4 or findutils, port with 0 patches. -- Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple