From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: [WIP] Get rid of msys in favor of busybox port for windows Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:39:45 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Git Mailing List To: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jul 10 17:47:34 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I8Hw5-0007Xh-8F for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 17:47:33 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754326AbXGJPr3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:47:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754189AbXGJPr3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:47:29 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:46111 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753625AbXGJPr2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:47:28 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 10 Jul 2007 15:47:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (EHLO [138.251.11.74]) [138.251.11.74] by mail.gmx.net (mp017) with SMTP; 10 Jul 2007 17:47:26 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18jVz54xasjB/joQkb/msRep2gW58Utwmd16M63E4 kFpHlp9xEl3zN/ X-X-Sender: gene099@racer.site In-Reply-To: X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote: > I'm integrating some code from busybox to mingw tree so that mingw port > can work without msys. Posix utilities such as sed, awk, head, tail... > seem to work well. The main obstacle is ash, which is no where near > usable state (fork issues as always). Busybox ash is about 13000 lines > of code, not too big. > > Anyone interested in? Definitely. Last time I wanted to assess how much work it is to compile that on MinGW, though, it seemed to be too much to be tractable. Ciao, Dscho