I am new to the Hurd but after much help have got it running. I have got a a tar ball, settransed, is that the word, /home and another partition, and mouted some swap space.
I have down loaded several deb files and have got gcc, make, and emacs20, plus a few others such as m4, mig and any others needed to build things. I have down loaded the latest bash source and compiled it under Hurd. It worked perfectly, so I replaced /bin/bash with the new version. The Hurd here is totally stable and will compile for several hours with no problems. What I want to do is to build the Hurd, and see if I can be of some use to you. I downloaded gnumach.tar from the site above that is also carrying vim. This made a new gnumach that was much smaller than the existing one. I tried running it and it failed at boot saying "Unable to load hd1s1/gnu/boot/servers.boot", the correct gnumach loads it with no problem. I suspect that I need to load more libraries and that I am just linking with stubs. I have also down loaded the Hurd using CVS as described in an earlier posting. The version that I got lacked a configure script in the directory so I got one from hurd_19991022; probably my next big mistake. After several hours building it failed in the serversboot directory. The line in the Makefile was: OBJS = $(subst .c,.o,$(SRCS)) boot_script.o ...................................... boot_script.o is in ../boot/bootscript.o Tried correcting this, either by substituting /bbot/bootscript.o or deleting boot_script.o. In both cases, after hours more building, the link of serversboot fails with many missing modules. Mostly of type ports_create_port, but many others. Am I missing some libraries or making some mistake? Please let me how down load sufficient to get the Hurd to make itself? Many thanks for your help so far Chris Lingard
