Here's a quick update for where we seem to be at for hurd-i386. I now have a machine at home with the Hurd running on it again, so I can do some work when my brain is too tired for the RC bugs in glibc. ;)
The buildd should start spewing out packages this week. Ryan and Nick have agreed to keep up with the signing if I keep the box running. glibc-2.3.1 seems to cut our uptime in half. With glibc-2.2.x I could build all of glibc natively, and with glibc-2.3 I can't. I'm now running gnumach2 (oskit-mach) on all of my boxes. I have longer uptime with it than with gnumach 1, and gnumach won't run at all on my laptop. I'm also hoping that running oskit-mach will help me produce bug reports for the above problem. libdb4.0 still doesn't appear to be fixed by the Debian maintainer, despite the cross-arch FTBFS bugs on it. I'll compile it and post on alpha. Perhaps then we can actually get perl-5.8. *sigh* It appears that the gcc-3.2 transition is imminent. This means I'm not racing to recompile the various c++ apps that are spread across different versions. They'll get picked up by the buildd in their own time. (Sorry, Philip!) My current three hurd-ish priorities are 1) Getting and keeping the buildd running, 2) Finishing the Hurd automake stuff so that it can be reviewed, 3) Tracking down the bug in the glibc testsuite. Most of my time for the next.. mmm. let's guess 2 weeks *g* will still be on Debian's glibc package. The end is in sight for most of its problems, though. If folks are looking for porting projects over their winter/summer breaks. Please let me know. We're not running short of them. Did I miss anything? Tks, Jeff Bailey
