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Subject: Re: please add bear package
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From: Eliot Moss <moss@cs.umass.edu>
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Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2020 10:42:24 -0400
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On 9/16/2020 10:35 AM, Brian Inglis wrote:
> On 2020-09-15 23:34, Thomas Wolff wrote:
>> Am 16.09.2020 um 05:27 schrieb anlex N via Cygwin:
>>> Bear is a tool that generates a compilation database for clang tooling.
>> You cannot expect anyone to go on bear hunt and make a package for you.
>> On the cygwin.com page you find information about how to propose and build
>> packages.
> 
> "Bear currently only works on Unix-based systems (FreeBSD, GNU/Linux and macOS),
> since it’s heavily relying on the LD_PRELOAD mechanism on *BSD/Linux and its
> macOS counterpart to intercept the system calls."

Some old posts suggest that LD_PRELOAD works for overloading functions that
Cygwin provides.  I can't swear to it myself :-) ...

Regards - Eliot Moss
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