As far as I can tell from the patch file, not at all. It just contains minor changes to existing code (namespace removed, ...) and includes a makefile. It still contains all the COM stuff and does only compile on windows.
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Thanks to work done by "Filip Navara" and "Lapo Luchini" now we have gcc port of the commandline 7-zip is available.
I started a news group at yahoo for further discussion. You can join and get original patches or a non member can download as zip from home page
Home page http://geocities.com/gcc7zip/
Mail group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gcc7zip/
How does this relate to linux port?
As far as I can tell from the patch file, not at all. It just contains minor changes to existing code (namespace removed, ...) and includes a makefile. It still contains all the COM stuff and does only compile on windows.