Hurd Orientation

2001-05-03 Thread Neal H Walfield
Welcome to the Hurd === Welcome to the Hurd. This email is automatically sent at the begining of each month to the help-hurd@gnu.org and debian-hurd@lists.debian.org mailing lists. This message is intended for a quick orientatio

Away

2001-05-03 Thread Jeff Bailey
I'm away this weekend, so nothing will get built. I'll catch up next week. Email if there's any questions. Tks, Jeff Bailey

Re: Hurd FAQ

2001-05-03 Thread Niels Möller
"Remy Saville" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sorry, I haven't followed the list that well. What were the > disadvantages of GNU Mach and advantages of OSKit-Mach that made > people choose OSKit-Mach as the official kernel? As I have understood it, gnumach is quite ugly and noone is willing to do

Re: Hurd FAQ

2001-05-03 Thread Remy Saville
>From the FAQ: "If all goes well, OSKit-Mach will be stabilized and become the official kernel" Sorry, I haven't followed the list that well. What were the disadvantages of GNU Mach and advantages of OSKit-Mach that made people choose OSKit-Mach as the official kernel?

/etc/cron.daily/standard: the df issue again

2001-05-03 Thread Joost van Baal
Hi, /etc/cron.daily/standard, as shipped with the cron package, features # Get a list of the (potential) ext2 l+f directories lflist=`df -P --type=ext2 |awk '/\/dev\// {printf "%s/lost+found ", $6}'` Off course, this fails on the Hurd, and gives an - imho annoying - message df: cannot read

Re: status

2001-05-03 Thread Jeff Bailey
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 02:19:50PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > > $(infodir)/gawk.info:: > > > > > > Is this an upstream bug, rather than a bug in the Debian package? > > > > I think it's an upstream bug in make, since I haven't found any way to > > have make correctly accept a : in a pa

porting issue

2001-05-03 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 11:54:10PM -0700, Jeff Bailey wrote: > On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 02:23:08PM +1000, Glenn McGrath wrote: > > > I was going to do this > > > > ifeq ($(strip $(shell uname)),Linux) > > LIBBB_CSRC+= interface.c module_syscalls.c syscalls.c > > endif Parsing the output of unam

Re: status

2001-05-03 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 11:56:14PM -0700, Jeff Bailey wrote: > On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 06:13:24PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > > > > $(infodir)/gawk.info:: > > > > Is this an upstream bug, rather than a bug in the Debian package? > > I think it's an upstream bug in make, since I haven't

Re: Hurd F1 ISO and booting

2001-05-03 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 02:03:57AM +0200, Farid Hajji wrote: > The ports collection is similar, except that it downloads the source, > applies system specific patches (great for the Hurd!) and recompiles > if necessary. We don't want system specific patches. That's the way that lies madness. We wa

Re: Hurd FAQ

2001-05-03 Thread Philip Charles
On Thu, 3 May 2001, Ramakrishnan M wrote: > Neal H Walfield wrote: > > > > I have written up a FAQ; I am interested in feedback and contributions: > > > > http://web.walfield.org/papers/hurd-faq/FAQ > > Very well done!! Keep doing such nice things to make GNU/Hurd more usable... > I h

Re: Hurd FAQ

2001-05-03 Thread Ramakrishnan M
Neal H Walfield wrote: > > I have written up a FAQ; I am interested in feedback and contributions: > > http://web.walfield.org/papers/hurd-faq/FAQ Very well done!! Keep doing such nice things to make GNU/Hurd more usable... -- Ramakrishnan M Work: http://www.ti.com/ Play: htt

hurd-F2 - final stages.

2001-05-03 Thread Philip Charles
I plan to freeze the Hurd sub-archive tomorrow, build and test the images over the weekend and should have them ready on Monday. This is all NZ time. Would people please check this exclusion list. These packages will be excluded from all CDs as they are (supposedly) broken. consol-common consol-

Re: status

2001-05-03 Thread Jeff Bailey
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 06:13:24PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > Seriously, let's file bug reports against packages which use the > > > complete path in a way that makes make unhappy. ":" is not the only > > > troublesome character. > > > > I don't have enough information to do this. Ever

Re: Hurd friendly Makefile

2001-05-03 Thread Jeff Bailey
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 02:23:08PM +1000, Glenn McGrath wrote: > I was going to do this > > ifeq ($(strip $(shell uname)),Linux) > LIBBB_CSRC+= interface.c module_syscalls.c syscalls.c > endif > > to isolate linux specific code, but im told this wont work under a cross > compiler. > > I dont