Re: new document
--- Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg> wrote:
> Matej Kosik wrote:
> > I am working on "The Hurd Building Guide" document
>
> Hi Matej,
>
> Here are some notes on your document:
> - It would be better if you mention that using Debian mirrors is preferred.
> - Who needs --enable-lpr? Searching in README.Drivers is part of the
> fun :-)
> - Compiling GNU Mach requires the `mig' and `patch' packages too.
> - Using serverboot is deprecated, although it still works.
> - I didn't compile OSKit under Hurd, but are you sure that Debian's
> patches are not needed?
None of the patches in Debian's OSKit package are needed to build
OSKit or OSKit-mach.
> - Why do you need -D 'Sun Jul 21 00:45:02 UTC 2002' when getting GNU
> Mach 2.x, or I slept some news about GNU Mach :) ?
This is a mistake. Probably derived from the off_t -> loff_t stuff in the
Hurd package, not gnumach.
> - It would be good to mention the `make kernel-ide+ethernet_ne2000'
> ability in GNU Mach 2.x.
Ability? This is umm, needed.
> - It is much better to use CVS Hurd and CVS GNU Mach. Of course, using
> CVS source requires gnu-20020816.tar.gz or later.
> - What is the reason @emph{text} to be rendered as `text' in HTML?
>
> Regards
> --
> Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg>, "\"Programmer\""
>
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James Morrison
University of Waterloo
Computer Science - Digital Hardware
2A co-op
http://hurd.dyndns.org
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