Re: Upstreaming the glibc Hurd port

2018-04-05 Thread Florian Weimer
On 04/03/2018 11:58 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: Joseph Myers, on mar. 03 avril 2018 21:48:32 +, wrote: The build for i686-gnu also fails using GCC 6 branch with build-many-glibcs.py: hurdsig.c: In function 'interrupted_reply_port_location.isra.1': hurdsig.c:250:39: error: 'portloc' may be us

Re: Personal Introduction

2018-04-05 Thread Charlie Sale
Hey Brent I would be willing to help with that project. I'll see what I can do to contribute. You said that you had some code written. Where can I find it? Is it in a branch on the main tree? Also, would you recommend developing in a GNU/Hurd environment as opposed to a GNU/Linux environment? I

Re: Personal Introduction

2018-04-05 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Charlie Sale, le jeu. 05 avril 2018 15:20:10 +, a ecrit: > I tried running Debian GNU/Hurd in qemu, but I had some major troubles > with that (keyboard didn't work at all). That's very surprising since that's what people would usually use. How did you start it exactly? Which version o

Re: Personal Introduction

2018-04-05 Thread Brent W. Baccala
On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 11:20 AM, Charlie Sale wrote: > Hey Brent > > I would be willing to help with that project. I'll see what I can do to > contribute. > > You said that you had some code written. Where can I find it? Is it in a > branch on the main tree? > No, unfortunately. Part of the rea

Re: Personal Introduction

2018-04-05 Thread Samuel Thibault
Brent W. Baccala, le jeu. 05 avril 2018 18:42:24 -0400, a ecrit: > Also, I should mention that a major issue on the mailing list for the last two > months has been upstreaming glibc. You are FUD-ing a lot here. > It's again related to how we interact with Debian. Nope, not at all. > There are s

Re: Personal Introduction

2018-04-05 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le ven. 06 avril 2018 00:53:39 +0200, a ecrit: > What did happen is that upstream glibc said they'd really want to have > glibc master actually build on the Hurd (and even cross-build, which is > not the harder part) so that they can do build tests while revamping the > code. That

Re: Personal Introduction

2018-04-05 Thread Brent W. Baccala
On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 6:53 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Brent W. Baccala, le jeu. 05 avril 2018 18:42:24 -0400, a ecrit: > > > that the Debian maintainers have threatened to drop us completely unless > we get > > our code upstreamed into the main glibc code base. > > Nope. That never happened, y

Re: Personal Introduction

2018-04-05 Thread Samuel Thibault
Brent W. Baccala, le jeu. 05 avril 2018 19:06:23 -0400, a ecrit: > It sure seems that copyright exceptions are made for big pieces of code (Mach, > LWIP), but not for contributions from individual developers. You're again FUD-ing here. There is a huge difference between easy-to-replace contributi

Re: Personal Introduction

2018-04-05 Thread Brent W. Baccala
On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 7:27 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Brent W. Baccala, le jeu. 05 avril 2018 19:06:23 -0400, a ecrit: > > Yes, Mach is > sort of an exception, because it was merely the ground for the whole > kernel. But being BSD-licenced, it was not posing problems for future > re-licensing

Re: Personal Introduction

2018-04-05 Thread John M. Harris Jr.
I don’t really think this is relevant to the topic at hand (Charlie’s personal introduction), so perhaps a new thread would be best.. What problem do you have with assigning your copyright to the FSF? -- John M. Harris, Jr. Splentity Software On Thursday, April 5, 2018 8:17:59 PM EDT Brent W.