On Tue, May 25, 1999 at 10:47:57PM +0200, Thierry Bourrillon wrote: > It would help to know what you like to do. Currently, there is lots > of room to getr yourself in. For example, you can try to build your > favourite Debian package and share with us the problems you > encounter. If there is a Debian package that does built without > problems, and it is not in the archive yet, let me know, so I can > build and upload it. The more you can fix yourself, the better (but > for massive upstream patches first let us know what you plan to do, > or it will get a mess). > > I thing that build some packages is a good start, so i have some questions > about it: > > what is the method to build the packages on the hurd ? what is needed ?
The method is the same we use under Debian in general, there is nothing special if you aare used to the Debian way. Go to any Debian mirror, and enter the directory debian/dists/unstable/main/source (instead main, you can try contrib or non-free if you don't have moral resistance against not purely free software :). There are a lot of packages in sections. For exammple, bash is in base/bash*, tcsh in shells/tcsh*. Emacs in editors/emacs* and so on. Some source packages produce multiple binary packages. Get the source package, which consists of two or three files: packagename_version-debianrevision.dsc # the source description file packagename_version.orig.tar.gz # the upstream source packagename_version-debianrevision.diff.gz # Debian changes if any Then put them in some directories. Make sure you have the package utils/dpkg-hurd-dev installed. Then enter: dpkg-source -x packagename_version-debianrevision.dsc To e_x_tract the source. You will find a directory named packagename-version/. Enter it. Then type: dpkg-buildpackage -B as root to create the architecture specific packages (architecture independant packages are already in the binary archive, you can simply get them and install them. No need to compile them first). With a bit luck, you will find one or more *.deb files in the parent directory (the dir that contains the source package) after a successful compilation. If it didn't work, make sure you have installed all development packages you need (all libraries, all header files etc). If errors occure, try to fix them or let us know (in that order :) > Where can i find a list of packages that have been succesfully built ? All packages that have been succesfully built are either in the binary-hurd-i386 tree of the Debina mirror or on alpha.gnu.org in directory pub/gnu/hurd/debian. But not all packages can be simply rebuilt. Some require some manual tweaks. I maintain a list locally, maybe I will post it. This is my current list of packages that compile out of the box: ae (962-23.1), bc (1.05a-4), bison (1.25.90-2), cvs (1.10.4-1), diff (2.7-18), diffstat (1.27-1), flex (2.5.4a-4), grep (2.3-2), gzip (1.2.4-29), inetutils (1.3.2-4), less (332-4.1), lynx (2.8.1-7), make (3.77-6), sed (3.02-1), sharutils (4.2-9), svgalib-dummy (1.2.13-2), tar (1.12-7) This list may be incomplete, because I started it from scratch a while ago, so older packages are not yet included, because I didn't retry them. If you want to have some tricky packages, try exim and sendmail. Or news clients. Do NOT attempt to compile Linux specific packages like zgv, netbase or similar. This will NOT work and only waste your time, unless you're willing to do some significant amount of porting and coding. You should try console only programs for now. I am busily working on X packages, and there are already pre-versions, but imake is not functional yet, so you will most likely have problems, because a lot of X programs use it. But if you feel adventures, try to find a X program that does not need xmkmf (which has not a Imakefile) and try it. Even if you fail on a special package, let us know. We are gathering information. It is likely that you are the first one to try a package. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09
