On Sat, Nov 14, 1998 at 03:35:54PM -0500, Ed Boraas wrote: > I have a fully functional native gcc-2.7 on my hurd partition with which > to work. Will the deb tools compile on hurd at this stage?
Yes, but not out of the box. > If not, what's broken? Not very much. Mainly that the current libc does not support file locking (yick!) and that dpkg reports the wrong architecture. Did I mention that sometimes the gzip child process seems to die for unknown reasons? > I'm willing to help dig out bugs in the deb tool sources, or in > the source of the packages depended on by them. Ed, I appreciate your efforts. However, I'm afraid that dpkg and friends could be too much of a burden for you (the dpkg sources are a bit ... evolved over time... messy...), and I really already did spend some time in them, so it would be doubled effort (in fact I am planning to concentrate on dpkg in the future _again_, so we have proper Debian packages [remark: there actually _is_ a tar file with Debian tools. Check my home page below]) If you would like to help, you could see and try if you have problems to compile the base packages (ncurses, bash, _perl_) and fix problems with them. We all do cross compilation, so you may want to check it, too. Perl _is_ important. Many Debian scripts are written in perl. > Another quick qn: Is it safe to replace the binaries from the gnu-0.2 > package with those of the ghhk? Yes. > I was first running ghhk, but later > decided to replace it with the official gnu-0.2 distribution so that i > could use the time i would have spend cross-compiling everything to get a > useful system more effectively working on things that need to get done for > the future of the debian hurd project. Mmmh. You should really extract the files from the Debian packages I uploaded (gnumach, hurd, glibc2). You can extract them with ar and tar. They are compiled from new upstream snap shots and fix some very nasty bugs. > Also: I noticed a comment on Marcus' page that the latest GNUMach > snapshots don't compile... is this still true? What is the latest > post-1.1.3 version of gnumach that's usable? No, this is not true any longer, thanks for mentioning. My latest upload was "gnumach_19981025-1_hurd-i386.deb". Not much has changed, though. > In any case, this is mainly just a note to let people know i'm out here > and ready to help this thing move. Welcome! I hope I can provide you with native Debian tools for the hurd soon. However, there is a lot that can be done even without dpkg and friends. Thank you, Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god." Debian GNU/Linux finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09
