> Can someone tell me what the best way is to get the latest version of the > Hurd compiled?
If you just want to get binaries that work, Marcus has just uploaded a new installation tarball (see recent post on this list). If you truly want to recompile natively from sources so you can hack on it, then--first, we are very glad that you do!--then you should get the current hurd sources from anonymous cvs (see http://www.gnu.org/software/devel.html for how to use anonymous cvs). > I also downloaded a newer binary tarball, which runs, but it didn't > contain the files that I needed to build the Hurd myself. It seems version > 0.2 is the only version that has a complete tarball with everything you > need. That is correct. Please realize that gnu-0.2 is a "complete GNU system" release from the FSF that predates the Debian/Hurd project by a few years. Current efforts are going into the "Debian GNU/Hurd" system, an all-volunteer project led primarily by Marcus Brinkmann, that uses the Debian packaging system and infrastructure for distributions. The gnu-YYYYMMDD tarballs that Marcus has been producing are not a complete system release in a single package like gnu-0.2 was, but closer to a Debian "base set"--it gives you just enough to get booted and easily use the Debian packaging tools to install everything else you need. The faqs floating around should tell you what you need to know about that, but the short story is that once you get a hurd system from the gnu-YYYYMMDD tarball, you can use dpkg and related tools to install the debian packages (.deb files) you want (I use dselect; others have reported using dpkg-ftp, I think; apt unfortunately does not work yet). To compile the hurd natively, you need the obvious tools (make, gcc, binutils) and you need the libc-devel (not the exact name) and gnumach-devel packages. All these packages are available in the usual debian distribution places. The faqs on the web should easily give you all the details you might need.
