On Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 01:57:52PM -0500, Ed Boraas wrote: > On Sun, 15 Nov 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > >On Sat, Nov 14, 1998 at 03:35:54PM -0500, Ed Boraas wrote: > >> 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. > > cute :)
:) It gave me a major headache. I don't know how much hours I spend into the dpkg build tree. Did I tell you that the sources are a mess^H^H^H^H quite complicated? > >> 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]) > > Ahh... i hadn't realized that there was such a tarball lying around. > Thanks for the pointer... this should help me get going on other packages. > Great! Actually, if you have Debian installed as your Linux system, you just need to install dpkg-dev for cross-building of packages (and use a few wrapper scripts). > >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. UPDATE: ncurses is done. > I'm not very familiar with cross-compilation, although i do have the > "cheap" (make-cross) cross-compiler up and running. I haven't had to do > that kind of work in the past. I'll get myself familiarized with > x-compilers as soon as i get a chance. Yes, try it. It works quite good, but one has to learn some hackery the hard way along the way. > >Perl _is_ important. Many Debian scripts are written in perl. > > Perl5 binaries are included in the GNU 0.2 distribution, so it couldn't be > too awfully broken. I'll check that out sometime after i get home today, > at least briefly. Try to build it from the debian source. I couldn't even get it to configure. I wish you more luck! > >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. > > OK, i'll snag those. Does the installation of libc6 break any (all? <g>) > of the existing GNU binaries? No. It's the same soname (the same sources, even). > I'll be spending the next while getting really familiar with mach and > hurd, and at the same time learning more about deb packages. I'm looking > forward to the fun! :) Welcome! 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
