On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 10:16:31AM -0500, Jamie Gennis wrote: > I'm trying to set up my system so that I can start playing around with > the hurd source. I've successfully compiled gnumach, but I can't seem > to get hurd to compile because I don't have cthread.h. I would have > thought it would either be part of libc or as a separate library, but > I can't find either. btw... why is the libc package called libc0.2? > Is it different from glibc?
It's a different soname, that's all. I wonder how people manage to install gc without also instaling libc0.2-dev, gnumach-dev and hurd-dev. Looking at the dependencies, this should not be possible. Are you using --force-depends or so? You definitely need those three. > Also... I can't seem to find the debconf package, which is required > by many packages. In a post last month Marcus said he was uploading > it, so perhaps there is some secret .deb stash somewhere? Or was it > just taken out for some reason? I've just been using > ftp.us.debian.org (I've gotten very good at typing cd > debian/dists/sid/main/binary-hurd-i386 thanks to that pesky select > bug). Maybe it got lost, or I never uploaded it. I forgot what happened. Currently I don't have time to work on Debian, for at least another week, so if someone else (Debian maintainer) could take care of that, that would be great. > Also... I read somewhere that the best place to start learning the > hurd/gnumach internals is with the gnumach ipc. Is there some > documentation on this somewhere, or should I just dive into the > source? There is the gnumach kernel principles, and the server writer. A little bit of reading in there will help a lot. Marcus
