On Wed, Nov 03, 1999 at 05:30:40PM +0530, Kapil H. Paranjape wrote: > The compilation went through cleanly (with some warnings about > incomplete formats). The compiled binary just hangs there (presumably > waiting to open a PTY).
No, it tries to close all open file descriptors, which are A LOT on the Hurd (2^32 I think). You have to uncomment the loop in the related function. Also, you need to update glibc. As this is quite a huge task, you may prefer to wait for me updating the Debian package, which will happen in one of the next days. Screen will follow as a binary package very soon after. > If someone else is already working on getting screen working could > they please inform me? > P.S. Some of the things that I managed to build. > > ssmtp (useful to get mail off the hurd to the mailhub) > elvis (vi clone --- I left out the X support :-) This is nice. try alpha.gnu.org/gnu/hurd/debian/xlib6g*deb and try with X support, please. > ftp://banyan.imsc.ernet.in/pub/mirror/local/ > > Has these packages. Did you modify the source at all? In this case the patches would be interesting. (Context diff with diff -ur). Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org for public PGP Key [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
