Re: GNU emacs on Hurd

2012-07-05 Thread Samuel Thibault
Svante Signell, le Thu 05 Jul 2012 10:19:00 +0200, a écrit :
> On Thu, 2012-07-05 at 17:41 +1000, James Collier wrote:
> > I should quickly introduce myself as this is my first post. I've been
> > subscribed on this list for several years and have been very interested
> > in the GNU/Hurd. I would very much like to see (and help) it released in
> > Debian Wheezy.
> 
> Well, it will probably be released with Wheezy+1.

We will most probably make an unofficial wheezy release; there is no
reason not to, and that'll already be great.

> > Secondly, and the reason for this email, emacs refuses to start. After
> > some googling I found:
> > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2011-04/msg00140.html
> 
> Emacs versions later than 23.2.1 does not build unfortunately. There is
> a patch available for that version,

Which makes it build in debian? It might be useful to upload that on
debian-ports.

Samuel



Re: GNU emacs on Hurd

2012-07-05 Thread Svante Signell
On Thu, 2012-07-05 at 17:41 +1000, James Collier wrote:
> Hi,
> My apologies if this is the incorrect forum for this. I appreciate being
> corrected.
> I should quickly introduce myself as this is my first post. I've been
> subscribed on this list for several years and have been very interested
> in the GNU/Hurd. I would very much like to see (and help) it released in
> Debian Wheezy.

Well, it will probably be released with Wheezy+1.

> Secondly, and the reason for this email, emacs refuses to start. After
> some googling I found:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2011-04/msg00140.html

Emacs versions later than 23.2.1 does not build unfortunately. There is
a patch available for that version, but I can send you unofficial
versions of 23.4 or even 24.1, until it builds properly on the buildds.

> I would appreciate some advice on what to do next. Should I forward the
> bug to Debian (I can't find it on the debian bug tracker) with the
> patch?

There is no bug for emacs in Hurd since no solution has yet been found
to build it reliably. I'm one if the people working on that (help
wanted).

Additionally, I think [email protected] would be a better
mailing list to use, since emacs 23.4 and 24.1 builds OK from upstream
tarballs, but not the Debian packages.





GNU emacs on Hurd

2012-07-05 Thread James Collier
Hi,
My apologies if this is the incorrect forum for this. I appreciate being
corrected.
I should quickly introduce myself as this is my first post. I've been
subscribed on this list for several years and have been very interested
in the GNU/Hurd. I would very much like to see (and help) it released in
Debian Wheezy.
Anyway, onto my problem. I have recently installed Debian GNU/Hurd from
the debian installer images at
http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-i386/installer/cdimage/

Firstly, networking works but `devprobe eth0' doesn't return anything.
Secondly, and the reason for this email, emacs refuses to start. After
some googling I found:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2011-04/msg00140.html

Trying to start emacs from the hurd console results in the message:
$ emacs
emacs: Not a tty device: /dev/tty

$emacs -nw
emacs: Not a tty device: /dev/tty

$ emacs --version
GNU Emacs 23.2.1

$ apt-cache policy emacs
emacs:
  Installed: 24.1+1-1
  Candidate: 24.1+1-1
  Version table:
 *** 24.1+1-1 0
500 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ sid/main hurd-i386 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
 23.2+1-7 0
500 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ sid/main hurd-i386 Packages

I would appreciate some advice on what to do next. Should I forward the
bug to Debian (I can't find it on the debian bug tracker) with the
patch?

Thanks very much,

James