Another dumb question
I am new to the Hurd but after much help have got it running. I have
got a a tar ball, settransed, is that the word, /home and another
partition, and mouted some swap space.
I have down loaded several deb files and have got gcc, make, and
emacs20, plus a few others such as m4, mig and any others needed to
build things. I have down loaded the latest bash source and compiled it
under Hurd. It worked perfectly, so I replaced /bin/bash with the new
version. The Hurd here is totally stable and will compile for several
hours with no problems.
What I want to do is to build the Hurd, and see if I can be of some use
to you. I downloaded gnumach.tar from the site above that is also
carrying vim. This made a new gnumach that was much smaller than the
existing one. I tried running it and it failed at boot saying "Unable
to load hd1s1/gnu/boot/servers.boot", the correct gnumach loads it with
no problem. I suspect that I need to load more libraries and that I am
just linking with stubs.
I have also down loaded the Hurd using CVS as described in an earlier
posting. The version that I got lacked a configure script in the
directory so I got one from hurd_19991022; probably my next big
mistake. After several hours building it failed in the serversboot
directory. The line in the Makefile was:
OBJS = $(subst .c,.o,$(SRCS)) boot_script.o
......................................
boot_script.o is in ../boot/bootscript.o
Tried correcting this, either by substituting /bbot/bootscript.o or
deleting boot_script.o. In both cases, after hours more building, the
link of serversboot fails with many missing modules. Mostly of type
ports_create_port, but many others.
Am I missing some libraries or making some mistake?
Please let me how down load sufficient to get the Hurd to make itself?
Many thanks for your help so far
Chris Lingard
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