Hello, As discussed on IRC recently and on the bug-hurd mailing list http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-01/msg00004.html and the debian-hurd mailing list http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2012/01/msg00001.html (bug 654381, tests run under fakeroot and . not in PATH) http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2012/01/msg00002.html the icon package FTBFS due to a missing . in PATH. Other architectures does not have this problem. According to Samuel the problem is missing info from glibc to the exec server about $0.
In May-June 2010 Emilio Pozuelo monfort proposed a set of patches to glibc and the exec server by adding two new RPCs http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-05/msg00108.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-06/msg00002.html However, that patch was considered not worth the effort http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-06/msg00010.html Now when glibc Hurd patches are being considered upstream maybe the set of patches by Emilio can be revised again. In one way or another, this problem has to be solved, the icon package has to be moved from debian-ports to the main archive in the aim of GNU/Hurd to enter testing for wheezy. Thanks, Svante