> It's almost always better to get a binary distribution if you're just
> starting out. The Hurd has enough little complexities that adding
> cross-compiling (not a simple excersize for ANY Platform) is never a good
> place to start when you have an alternative.
Yes, but I want the experience. And anyway, compiling Hurd natively takes
something like 6 hours to complete on my Pentium 166 with a burn out
secondary cache. ;) I won't even try to do the same thing for glibc.
>
> Acquire the latest libc from CVS or debian sources. There have been some
> pretty major updates.
>
I have a question regarding your mini-howto (which is great btw). Why use
two compilers? Why not keep egcs only?
Thank you.
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