Hi, I just saw on IRC in the title: please help fix: db3 configure script dies when looking for kill. Please people, it's fine to look in IRC for help, but also send a short notice to the list.
The Hurd does have kill only as a shell builtin. The kill in whatever package it is in under Linux uses special Linux features like procps or so (forgot the details), so it is not readily ported. Nobody needs kill as a shell program. Please check why db3 configure wants an external program kill (will the shell builtin suffice? Will the C function do the job?). If there is a good reason, we can include a kill in the Hurd package (can anybody think of cool Hurd features we can include in it?), or make the other kill portable. Otherwise, you could probably write a small shell script that runs kill. Thanks, Marcus
