Re: [gentoo-alt] Patch breaks

2010-08-27 Thread Al
For the archives: > > Hmmm, I think you should use i686-pc-cygwin.  That'll help make libtool > and the like do what they do best on Cygwin. Yes, that is absolutely necessary else bootstrappig doesn't work for some packages. > > bootstrap-prefix.sh doesn't have support for this target (yet), sin

Re: [gentoo-alt] Patch breaks

2010-08-26 Thread Markus Duft
On 08/26/2010 10:54 AM, Markus Duft wrote: > On 08/26/2010 08:42 AM, Christopher Warrington wrote: >> "Al" @ 2010-8-25 3:25 AM: >>> Yes, Cygwin is not ELF but COFF. >> >> I've almost always heard Windows executables called Portable Executables >> (PEs) [1]. Though, according to the article, PEs ar

Re: [gentoo-alt] Patch breaks

2010-08-26 Thread Markus Duft
On 08/26/2010 08:42 AM, Christopher Warrington wrote: > "Al" @ 2010-8-25 3:25 AM: >> Yes, Cygwin is not ELF but COFF. > > I've almost always heard Windows executables called Portable Executables > (PEs) [1]. Though, according to the article, PEs are an evolution of COFFs. Windows uses (that's th

Re: [gentoo-alt] Patch breaks

2010-08-25 Thread Christopher Warrington
"Al" @ 2010-8-25 3:25 AM: > Yes, Cygwin is not ELF but COFF. I've almost always heard Windows executables called Portable Executables (PEs) [1]. Though, according to the article, PEs are an evolution of COFFs. Looking at a Cygwin binary (/usr/sbin/httpd2.exe from [2]), I do see the the PE magic

Re: [gentoo-alt] Patch breaks

2010-08-25 Thread Al
2010/8/25 Michael Haubenwallner : > Hi Al, > > On 08/25/10 05:38, Al wrote: >> If I use the build-in patch from Cygwin emerge works fine. When I >> emerge gentoo patch 2.6.1 the following emerges break while applying >> patches. > > It is unlikely one of those warnings is the reason for patch faili

Re: [gentoo-alt] Patch breaks

2010-08-25 Thread Al
>> bootstrap-prefix.sh offers profiles for "i586-pc-interix" and >> "i586-pc-winnt". Should I try one of theese? > > Hmmm, I think you should use i686-pc-cygwin.  That'll help make libtool > and the like do what they do best on Cygwin. > Thank you. I follow this advice. Al

Re: [gentoo-alt] Patch breaks

2010-08-25 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 25-08-2010 12:25:15 +0200, Al wrote: > > Ignore it for now. This is specific to ELF systems, and in the end > > there will be another platform-specific handling in prepstrip. > > Thank you very much Michael. > > Yes, Cygwin is not ELF but COFF. I wounder if I have to change the > CHOST setting

Re: [gentoo-alt] Patch breaks

2010-08-25 Thread Al
2010/8/25 Michael Haubenwallner : > >> 2.) Short before end: >> >> /home/prefix/gentoo/usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild-helpers/prepstrip: line >> 98: scanelf: command not found >> /home/prefix/gentoo/usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild-helpers/prepstrip: line >> 186: scanelf: command not found > > Ignore it for

Re: [gentoo-alt] Patch breaks

2010-08-25 Thread Michael Haubenwallner
Hi Al, On 08/25/10 05:38, Al wrote: > If I use the build-in patch from Cygwin emerge works fine. When I > emerge gentoo patch 2.6.1 the following emerges break while applying > patches. It is unlikely one of those warnings is the reason for patch failing, you'll have to debug the patch binary its

[gentoo-alt] Patch breaks

2010-08-24 Thread Al
Still struggling with Cygwin. One of the steps I still can't take is patch. If I use the build-in patch from Cygwin emerge works fine. When I emerge gentoo patch 2.6.1 the following emerges break while applying patches. I have some doubts, if anybody can help me here, but the build log is a good