RE: APT

[Brent Fulgham <bfulgham@xpsystems.com>]

> was linked to a non-existing libshouldbeinlibc.so.. which 
> package is this
> in?)
>
I thought this was in libc0.2 packages?  Perhaps it's only
in the -devel package?

> Anyway, the 0.1.9 version of APT coldn't handle the 
> "Architecture" thing
> in apt.conf, so I thought I'd better try compiling the latest version
> myself. After installing debhelper and a lot of other stuff, 
> I could at
> least get to the configure phase. It said it required 
> libpthreads, and I
> don't think libpthreads for Hurd exists. Is that correct?
> 
The hurd currently uses cthreads.  I'm not sure how much trouble
would be involved in converting pthreads calls to cthreads...

> Another thing I discovered is that the Hurd bails out totally 
> if it runs
> out of memory. But I guess this is quite known? ;)
> 
Have you established a swap partition?

-Brent