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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

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