Re: RPM-based Hurd distro (was : Re: Hurd F1 ISO and booting)

2001-05-04 Thread Jonathan Bartlett
> Nope, I don't think packaging is "important" it's just > covenient(sp?). What I *do* think is really, really important is > documentation. Almost every Free Software project is lacking in that > area. If I can help with it, I will. WOW Someone who thinks documentation is important. Are you

Re: Xterm library failure...

2001-04-30 Thread Jonathan Bartlett
Is there an "easy guide to ELF" which explains all this stuff? Thanks, Jon On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 05:29:13PM +0100, Neil Levine wrote: > > Thanks for the help before with the Perl and libc issue. I seemed to > > kick off an interesting topic :-) I

Unidentified subject!

2001-03-30 Thread Jonathan Bartlett
Is there any documentation on how Mach ports are implemented on i386 machines? I've seen lots of stuff on how to use them and such, but I haven't seen anything about how they are actually implemented on i386. Thanks, Jon

Re: Switching ttys

2001-03-09 Thread Jonathan Bartlett
You have to use the "screen" program. Ctrl-a c creates screens Ctrl-a n switches screens Jon On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Chris Gray wrote: > > I feel kind of ashamed for asking such a simple question, but is it > possible to switch terminals as Alt-Fn does in Linux? It's rather > frustrating only h

Re: non-US?

2001-03-06 Thread Jonathan Bartlett
I actually built openssl/openssh on the hurd. The client worked fine, but the server gorked when trying to connect to it (I never had the time to figure out why). Also, I haven't uploaded it because (1) I am in the U.S., and (2) I know nothing of debian's packaging system, and haven't had the tim

Re: Hurd limitations

2001-02-26 Thread Jonathan Bartlett
> I am not familiarly with sub mounts (at least the terminology), what > do they allow you to do? This is where the hurd stores the translator information in the file system itself. So, if you mount a filesystem on /home, that filesystem itself may have mount points (translators) listed in the fi

Re: umount cdrom

2001-02-06 Thread Jonathan Bartlett
Don't remove a file, do a 'ps' and look for the /hurd/storeio process that is sitting on /dev/hd3 Jon On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Cesare Zavattari wrote: > On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Farid Hajji wrote: > > > # settrans -fg /mnt/cdrom > > then remove /hurd/storeio that is sitting on Mach cdrom device, so that

Re: Can HURD read Linux fs's?

2001-02-05 Thread Jonathan Bartlett
Yes, if they are less than the 1 gig mark. Jon On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Philip Charles wrote: > My system was built up with pre 2.2 kernels and so the partitions are not > formatted with the sparse_super option. HURD does not read them. > > Question, will the HURD read Linux fs's if they are format

Re: linux partition in hurd

2001-01-29 Thread Jonathan Bartlett
HURD cannot handle partitions larger than 1 gig. The reason being, it tries to map the whole thing into virtual memory, and there are limitations on that for x86 platforms. Jon On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Pupala Ronald wrote: > Hi all > > I use a ext2fs translator for mounting linux partition > > s

Re: installing gtk+1.2.8

2001-01-25 Thread Jonathan Bartlett
d function that I'm not thinking of that helps this out? Jon On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Adam Olsen wrote: > On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 02:16:22PM -0600, Jonathan Bartlett wrote: > > HURD does not have a MAXPATHLEN defined. Anyone know what the best > > work-around is for that? G

Re: installing gtk+1.2.8

2001-01-25 Thread Jonathan Bartlett
HURD does not have a MAXPATHLEN defined. Anyone know what the best work-around is for that? Generally, I've just modified a header file to set it to 2-4k or something. Is there a better way? Generally, people like allocating fixed-size buffers - what's the best fix? Jon On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, P

Re: ./configure error message

2001-01-22 Thread Jonathan Bartlett
You probably don't have libc-devel installed. Jon On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Petros Sidiropoulos wrote: > hello, > I have the following error while I try to run ./confugure to some package > (icewm-1.0.6): > > 'loading cache ./config.cache > checking for gcc... gcc > checking whether the C compiler

Re: libc & libnss-db

2001-01-18 Thread Jonathan Bartlett
won't dpkg --configure --pending work? Jon On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Neal H Walfield wrote: > > so I tryed to upgrade it using dselect. It stucks because it can't configure > > new libc because it depends on libnss-db. > > Ok, I tryed to install libnss-db but... it can't be configured because it > >

Re: termio.h

2001-01-04 Thread Jonathan Bartlett
Ahhh... very good. I was building openssl using Linux defs. I'm working on one for the HURD. Thanks, Jon On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 02:00:34PM -0600, Jonathan Bartlett wrote: > > Where is termio.h? I installed glibc/glibc-dev from

termio.h

2001-01-04 Thread Jonathan Bartlett
Where is termio.h? I installed glibc/glibc-dev from the HURD-D1 CD, but apparently termio.h isn't there. Jon -- PGP information is available at http://members.wri.com/johnnyb/about/