Re: Mirosoft Interix contains Cygwin

["Suhaib M. Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

Yes there is some old old code at ftp.interix.com/newinterix.main_tools.html

but absolutely nothing at the URL M$ quotes in GPL document to retrieve code
for the GPL'ed binaries


Mumit Khan wrote:

> DJ Delorie <dj@delorie.com> writes:
>
> > Cool!  Now even Microsoft is seeing the benefits of open source software.
>
> Actually, Microsoft always has, just likes to hide the fact in case
> it's forced to practice the same! If you look at its own now-obsolete
> POSIX kit, it included quite a bit of GNU code, including a port of
> gcc. That whole POSIX subsystem and kit is now obsoleted by Interix's
> product.
>
> As for Interix, here's a bit of history: Softway/Interix a few years
> ago started out with Cygwin b17 as the base and built a version of gcc
> and binutils for their POSIX subsystem. GCC didn't need too much
> modification, at least at the basic level, but binutils is a whole
> different story.
>
> Even though Interix now uses newer gcc, their stable codebase still
> uses some old code, and that's why you see the cygnus-2.7.2-970404.
>
> I assume the "assimilation" of Interix by MS will have caused some
> temporary glitches, but Interix has always maintained full sources
> on their ftp site; a bit buried, but the pointer is on their CD and
> in docs.
>
> For the record, I have no affiliation with Interix other than some
> productive collaborative efforts with Donn Terry in porting egcs
> to Interix.
>
> > Plus, the i386-pc-opennt directory means that they *had* to rebuild
> > gcc from source, targetting their system.  This means that there are
> > now five wintel gccs - emx, djgpp, cygwin, mingw, and now interix.
>
> Make that *six*; a brand new one -- ix86-pc-win32-gnu -- which uses
> GNU C Library as the runtime. I'm still cleaning out bits and pieces
> at this point, mostly in the runtime.
>
> Sorry about getting rather off-topic here ...
>
> Regards,
> Mumit


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