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On Dec 10 14:18, Christian Kellermann wrote: > * Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com> [141210 13:31]: > > The problem is just this: We need a maintainer for the package. > > Somebody who's willing to do the packaging, manage updates, and > > monitors the cygwin mailing list for user's problems. > > > > Are you willing to take over Cygwin maintainership of the package? > > I can do so. I will also pass on the cygwin specific knowlegde to > my co-developers so any of us could take care of the port. With > other linux distributions we have a similar link to package maintainers > / ports lists and it has worked quite well in the past. > > If that's not an option for you I humbly suggest the removal of the > old port. It has tons of bugs and we might switch off the infrastructure > behind the old CHICKEN extensions in the future without further > notice. No, that's fine, thank you. And we can remove the old chicken port either way. > > You can easily install evaluation versions of 64 bit Windows into a > > virtual machine: > > > > http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-windows-8-1-enterprise > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/dn205302.aspx > > Thanks I will have a look. What's the cygwin way of detecting whether > we build for 32 or 64 bit? I'd use that to switch options then. ${ARCH} is i686 or x86_64. Or you can test like this: if defined ARCH_i686 then ... fi if defined ARCH_x86_64 then ... fi Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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