Porting Bind

2001-08-11 Thread Dios Del Tiempo
Hello! =) Today I tried to build bind in Hurd, but I want to ask again if somebody has ported it in the past; I looked at sourceforce turtle's page and bind appears to be not build. I fixed small things and got an MAXHOSTNAMELENGHT error; I think is easy to fix it. I'll continue working on

please test libio

2001-08-11 Thread Roland McGrath
The libc and hurd code has been ready to switch to libio for some time. But it needs to be tested. If you have had success building glibc for the hurd (i.e. you can either cross-compile or natively compile libc, install it on your hurd, and run a happy hurd), then please try building and testing t

Re: some more JOBS

2001-08-11 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 08:38:49PM +0200, Steinar Hamre wrote: > On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 09:49:05AM -0700, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 04:56:12PM +0200, Steinar Hamre wrote: > > If you truly want to fix this code, you should get the POSIX standard > > extended so that it de

Re: A REAL installation opportunity!

2001-08-11 Thread Ted Rolle
I'm no alpha guru... I wanna be a user... OpenBSD? On Sat, 11 Aug 2001, Igor Khavkine wrote: > On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 11:28:25AM -0700, Ted Rolle wrote: > > I inherited an Alpha box with no hard drive. I'm going to Fry's to get a > > 30-40G HD and a RW CD-ROM drive. > > > > I'd like to instal

Re: A REAL installation opportunity!

2001-08-11 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 11:28:25AM -0700, Ted Rolle wrote: > I inherited an Alpha box with no hard drive. I'm going to Fry's to get a > 30-40G HD and a RW CD-ROM drive. > > I'd like to install Hurd on the box. > > Where to from here? > > Do I have to install Linux first? Can I boot from a flop

Re: some more JOBS

2001-08-11 Thread Steinar Hamre
On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 09:49:05AM -0700, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 04:56:12PM +0200, Steinar Hamre wrote: > > This #ifdef OS used in this way is hell to maintain as soon as more > > than two operating system is to be supported. In addition different > > versions of the sam

A REAL installation opportunity!

2001-08-11 Thread Ted Rolle
I inherited an Alpha box with no hard drive. I'm going to Fry's to get a 30-40G HD and a RW CD-ROM drive. I'd like to install Hurd on the box. Where to from here? Do I have to install Linux first? Can I boot from a floppy and go from there (ftp install?) Yours unknowingly, Ted

Outstanding patches in the BTS

2001-08-11 Thread Igor Khavkine
There are 5 outstanding Hurd related bugs from me with patches in the Debian BTS. libsaal7: #95881 libgc5: #99084 The maintainer didn't answer any of my emails, the upstream version (libgc6) will have Hurd support when released, but that could still be a while. smail: #99

Re: some more JOBS

2001-08-11 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 04:56:12PM +0200, Steinar Hamre wrote: > No, no, no! Yes! :) > This #ifdef OS used in this way is hell to maintain as soon as more > than two operating system is to be supported. In addition different > versions of the same OS would support different sets of filesystems!

Re: status of ppp or pthreads?

2001-08-11 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 08:50:09AM -0700, James Morrison wrote: > Also how much of the pthreads implementation is finished? I want to > try tekNap on hurd, but it needs pthreads. Not useable yet. The development was stalled because I needed to learn more about glibc internals. But then I got si

stat() and its consequences (was: Re: Strange behavior while copying files)

2001-08-11 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 12:38:47PM +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: > Igor Khavkine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The strange thing happens when this is done, if I look in my / I > > have a ton of pty* and tty* device files created there, even though > > I copied no files to or from /. > > Just

Re: status of ppp or pthreads?

2001-08-11 Thread Daniel E Baumann
On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 08:50:09AM -0700, James Morrison wrote: > I'm wondering if ppp is in a usable enough state that I would be > able > to use irc or icq with it? PPP is not usable as it is pushes select() hard which afaik is very broken. I cannot eve apt-get anything nor do an ls after telne

status of ppp or pthreads?

2001-08-11 Thread James Morrison
I'm wondering if ppp is in a usable enough state that I would be able to use irc or icq with it? Also how much of the pthreads implementation is finished? I want to try tekNap on hurd, but it needs pthreads. = James Morrison University of Waterloo Computer Science - Digital Hardwar

Re: Building xlife, ctwm and bind

2001-08-11 Thread James Morrison
--- Dios Del Tiempo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello! =) > > Im working right now in building ctwm, another window manager; I > compiled it > yesterday with lots of warnings, something about clock skew among > these. I have > plans to test it this weekend, and after than I want to work in

Re: Strange behavior while copying files

2001-08-11 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Igor Khavkine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The strange thing happens when this is done, if I look in my / I > have a ton of pty* and tty* device files created there, even though > I copied no files to or from /. Just to be sure: you don't have (ana)cron that maybe decided to start a find over a