I an trying to learn about the Hurd. One day, I would like to help with the testing and development.
I have got a tar ball and installed various packages to get a development system. I can build packages from source, such as bash and make. I though I had enough to build the Hurd itself so I got the source from CVS. I run dpkg-buildpackage -uc -B and all the binaries build, at least I think so. It fails trying to build the documentation, and wants package tetex. The problem is that tetex depends on dpkg-perl, and I cannot find this anywhere in the Package index, or in the binary directories. I have built TeX on several UNIX boxes so may try this next. Could you please advice me on the best way to complete the build. Also, once it is complete, what is the Debian/Hurd way to install what I have built. Can I just tar my hurd partition, in Debian, so as to recover it later; return to the Hurd and do a make install in the build directory. Many thanks Chris Lingard
