On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 02:24:08PM -0700, Remy Saville wrote: > I'm not ready for kernel hacking yet, but I'm ready to start > looking for something trival to try to get going. As I > understand it most of the Debian Linux packages don't compile on > HURD?
Fact is we don't know. I'd guess that of the packages which are not explicitely Linux specific, about 30% don't compile (most of them because of trivial errors). > So I should just grab the source to an interesting Linux package > and try making adjustments to allow it to compile on HURD? Yes. > Is there a list, or a need for somebody to make a list? You can check the ftp.debian.org bianry archive. (We will provide a more convenient full list later). More detailed status of a subset is available through Jeffs status pages (erhm, http://people.debian.org/~jbailey/something, where something is turtle, turtle1, turtle2 or so). Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de
