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Re: Hosting the Debian/kCygwin port?
- From: Sjors Gielen <mailinglist at dazjorz dot com>
- To: Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir at cohens dot org dot il>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:24:15 +0100
- Subject: Re: Hosting the Debian/kCygwin port?
- References: <49751189.5050609@dazjorz.com> <20090121125918.GP1009@pear.tzafrir.org.il>
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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