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From: "Sean Champ" <symmetry_web AT email DOT msn DOT com>
To: "Cygwin-general" <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Subject: developer questions : porting : things to be aware of?
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 11:51:11 -0800
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hello.


i'm planning on finally making a run at trying to build some things on
cygwin (eg:  xemacs, apache 2.0alpha, etc :)

( it may be an abortive run, but it's worth it. )


I'm wondering what things I should look to first.

   eg:
           -- any common problem-spots across applications?

           -- specifics of compatability issues
                    between. *n*x applications and cygwin?

and maybe a good tutorial about C++ would be among what I should be reading
;)    but I like the learn-by-trying approach, for this.

-- -- -- -- --

re: filesystem hierarchies,  meaning of ~ :

i remember hearing something about the fact that dir-handles like
 "H-i586-pc-cygwin"
are in-case someone's building things for other platforms.

so:
       is there any work going on for cygwin-macintosh?

and:
   what is the "H" for on "H-i586" ?

-- -- -- -- --

 re: filesystem hierarchies, development of  ~ :


    I came across a copy of the FHSS, "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard":

http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.0/fhs-toc.html

  the FHSS is  available for download:
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.0.tar.gz

(PS, DVI, text, and troff formats are all included in the pacakge, from what
it says.   i hope to be trying to get it into texi format soon, also)

http://www.pathname.com/fhs/
is the top-level dir for it.

the mailing list  info is at
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.0/fhs-list.html
(it's a very low-traffic list, it seems)


or, mailto:

listserv AT ucsd DOT edu

with this in the body of the email:
       ADD fhs-discuss

or try :
  listserv AT ucsd DOT edu?body=ADD%20fhs-discuss




-- Sean








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