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 17:20:48 +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 18:28:45 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 1I8IZr-0000wn-37 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 18:28:39 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756152AbXGJQ2d (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:28:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755667AbXGJQ2d (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:28:33 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:36659 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1754655AbXGJQ2c (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:28:32 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 10 Jul 2007 16:28:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (EHLO [138.251.11.74]) [138.251.11.74] by mail.gmx.net (mp057) with SMTP; 10 Jul 2007 18:28:29 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/eAAgnMD3eQPtaYgomDG9bRlGtN51spIxwxKcMLM oqR136fAyMCIC/ 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: > On 7/10/07, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > > 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. > > The exact answer is "I don't know" :-) I cross compile all the time > however it should build fine on MinGW as it now uses git Makefile. > I'll push the patch into mob soon. Do you mean the whole busybox thing? If so, please do not put it into mingw.git. Rather, start a busybox.git project (I saw that you have already some projects on repo.or.cz, so it should be easy for you.) Thanks, Dscho