So, in order to make a nice impression at non-technical people during LinuxTag, I decided to port XFCE4 to Debian GNU/Hurd.
That's it: http://people.debian.org/~mbanck/x.png The packages are up at http://people.debian.org/~mbanck/hurd/ You'll also need a couple of Arch:all packages from ftp.debian.org. I've uploaded atk-1.6, glib-2.4 and pango-1.4 to ftp.debian.org (currently in incomimg), they might be needed (at least they were needed for building due to some Arch:all package version skew, IIRC) GTK+-2.4 did not build properly unfortunately, but I was able to get a GTK+-2.0 version installed from snapshot.debian.net with a bit of hacking. There was a problem with PATH_MAX and a missing libgtkhtml in two of the core xfce4 packages, which I sent patches for and the maintainer reacted already. There was also a problem with libxml2 and libpthread, I got this error: xfce-mcs-manager: /home/jbailey/hurd/hurd/hurd-20040508/build-tree/hurd/ libpthread/sysdeps/generic/pt-mutex-timedlock.c:55: __pthread_mutex_timedlock_internal: Assertion `__pthread_threads' failed. Hmm, damn, I had a rather unspecific traceback for that, but apparently I deleted the directory in order to make space :-/ Anyway, I decided to rebuild libxml2 without threading for hurd-i386 and this turned out to work fine. Unfortunately, I will have to build libxml2 again as I forgot to bump the version number. Is it OK if I ask the maintainer to remove threading for us until we fixed/investigated the problem? cheers, Michael -- Michael Banck Debian Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.advogato.org/person/mbanck/diary.html
