On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 11:44:34AM -0500, Ned Ludd wrote:
> > If people are really interested in getting Portage/Cygwin working and
> > want to invest some time they can mail me offlist and I'll see how I can
> > help them get a better experience with Portage on Cygwin.
> 
> Great please keep it as an external overlay project.
> 
> Here is a list of things we can support properly.
> If it's not listed here then we _Gentoo_ have no business trying to
> support it.
> 
> supported BFD targets:
[snip]

# file q821982.exe # it's a microsoft patch I had lying around
q821982.exe: MS-DOS executable (EXE), OS/2 or MS Windows
# objdump -f q821982.exe 
q821982.exe:     file format efi-app-ia32
architecture: i386, flags 0x0000010a:
EXEC_P, HAS_DEBUG, D_PAGED

efi-app-ia32 is on your BFD target list, so by logical inverse of your
statement, we do have business trying to support it.

However I will concur that until there is sufficent demand (and I agree this is
very hard to measure), getting Gentoo/Cygwin added to the tree probably won't
happen.

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