Re: Trying to build the Hurd
Hello,
I had makeinfo, that was OK. It wanted to build the Post Script hurd.ps, and as
far as I know, you need TeX for this. The Hurd built OK but failed on the
install when it overwrote some libraries; I should have written the message
down. Copied the deb to the root partition and installed it single user.
Got a few strange messages whilst building up the system, but it was the first
time that I had a full system. Next tar ball I will write everything down more
carefully. Have not build tetex yet, but the Hurd here will compile happily for
two or three hours, and not need any reboots. I had the same problem building
gcc and the kernal in Linux, but since I underclocked the problem has gone away.
Thanks for your advice
Chris
Weil, Stefan 3732 EPE-24 wrote:
> Hello,
>
> maybe the Hurd build wants tetex because doc needs makeinfo and makeinfo
> is in tetex? It is a waste of disk space to install tetex just to get
> makeinfo. makeinfo is a simple C source (distributed with texinfo and
> other packages) and could be installed without tetex.
>
> Regards,
> Stefan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Lingard [mailto:chris@highludworth.freeserve.co.uk]
> Sent: Saturday, November 06, 1999 9:59 PM
> To: debian-hurd@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Trying to build the Hurd
>
> I an trying to learn about the Hurd. One day, I would like to help with
> the testing and development.
>
> I have got a tar ball and installed various packages to get a
> development system. I can build packages from source, such as bash and
> make.
>
> I though I had enough to build the Hurd itself so I got the source from
> CVS. I run
> dpkg-buildpackage -uc -B and all the binaries build, at least I
> think so. It fails trying to build the documentation, and wants package
> tetex. The problem is that tetex depends on dpkg-perl, and I cannot
> find this anywhere in the Package index, or in the binary directories. I
> have built TeX on several UNIX boxes so may try this next.
>
> Could you please advice me on the best way to complete the build. Also,
> once it is complete, what is the Debian/Hurd way to install what I have
> built. Can I just tar my hurd partition, in Debian, so as to recover
> it later; return to the Hurd and do a make install in the build
> directory.
>
> Many thanks
>
> Chris Lingard
>
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