Re: How to cross-compile the hurd

2003-09-13 Thread Marco Gerards
Peter Wainwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > > I consider crosscompiling a waste of time. Please don't do that. > > This advice I have seen before. I wish I could have avoided it, > but the whole problem is that I can't get the CD binary distribution > to work, therefore I can't run the

Re: remote debugging stubs (EXC_BAD_ACCESS)

2003-09-13 Thread Marco Gerards
Greg Buchholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > warning: Can't modify tracing state for pid 202: No signal thread I'm not sure about how signals *exactly* work on the Hurd, but AFAIK every task is also a server and listens for signal. If there is no thread (to listen for signals) you can't se

Re: how to cross-compile the hurd

2003-09-13 Thread Peter Wainwright
Problem solved! I'd better document my workaround here in case I or anyone else needs it, and before I forget... To summarise: I wanted to install a binary distribution (Debian Gnu/Hurd J2); however, the kernel from that CD did not boot on my machine. I suspected shared interrupts in the device d

Re: How to cross-compile the hurd

2003-09-13 Thread Ognyan Kulev
Peter Wainwright wrote: If it is true that Hurd (or GNU mach) cannot handle interrupt sharing, is it possible to disable the checks for certain devices interactively at boot time? Otherwise I need some kind of kernel which does not have conflicting devices. AFAIK you can't disable certain devices