On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 05:35:53PM +0900, vergence wrote: > what is gnumach and hurd. > I'd like to know the difference. > GNUmach is the 'kernel' that handles interaction between software and the low-level devices and functionality of your computer. The Hurd sits on top of GNUmach.
The Hurd is the set of services available to a user or application programmer. You need both pieces. > I downloaded "gnumach-19981118.tar.gz". > To compile gnumach, I typed ./configure. > and err message was ... > the os is not gnu/linux ... > How can I solve this problem? > You need to cross-compile GNUmach. If you have a debian GNU/Linux system, you can install the cross compiling utilities to do so. Then you must type: "./configure --build=i586-pc --host=i386-gnu" so that 'configure' will know to use the cross-compiler tools. Regards, -Brent
