Re: Another dumb question
> 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.
You probably need to give --enable options for the drivers you need.
> 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.
configure is not in the cvs repository but configure.in is.
Just run autoconf in your source checkout directory.
> After several hours building it failed in the serversboot
> directory. The line in the Makefile was:
It is never very useful to show us a makefile line. The only way we can
help you is if you show us the actual error output you saw.
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