On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 09:21:40PM +0100, Chris Lingard wrote: > The Hurd here is totally stable and will compile for several > hours with no problems.
That sounds wonderful! > 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. GNU Mach doesn't link to libraries (that's only a very small lie, actually). I am not sure what your problem is. Get gnumach from CVS and compile your own one, but make sure you have all drivers you need. > 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. Look at how debian/rules configures the Hurd, look at the configure target. Ignore all --build and --host options which are for cross compiling. > After several hours building it failed in the serversboot > directory. The line in the Makefile was: Mmmh. Maybe you should really configure the Hurd proper and try again. > Please let me how down load sufficient to get the Hurd to make itself? I think you have all you need. Maybe get dpkg-hurd-dev and do: dpkg-buildpackage -uc -B to produce the debs. Marcus -- "The purpose of Free Software is Free Software. The End and the Means are the same." -- Craig Sanders Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
