Re: experimental support of Cygwin

["OBATA Akio" <obache%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Cygwin support is almost done.

On Sun, 24 Feb 2013 22:25:53 +0900, OBATA Akio <obache%netbsd.org@localhost> 
wrote:

> On Sun, 10 Feb 2013 22:19:00 +0900, OBATA Akio <obache%netbsd.org@localhost> 
> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've just commmitted some changes for experimental support of Cygwin.
> > I hope it does not break others.
> >
> > TODO:
> > * not tested with privileged mode (su(1) on Cygwin does not work as expected)
> > * bulitn X is not supported yet
> > * ...and so on...
>
> * sysutils/user_cygwin should be created based on user_interix
>    (+ maintain Cygwin's /etc/{passwd,group} with mkpasswd/mkgroup).

added quick & dirty one ;(

> * mk/plist/shlib-pe.awk should be improved based on shlib-dylib.awk.

just copy & replace s/.dylib/.dll/, not tested widely.

> * for "PE" part in mk/pkgformat/pkg/metadata should be changed from
>    using `ldd' to `objdump' (or something else), because `ldd' will
>    be hung up with some DLLs.

I've just throw ldd issue to cygwin mailing list:
  http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-03/msg00018.html
If any usable information is not available, I may disable metadata
support for PE temporary.

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