Re: Trying to compile
On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 05:43:26PM +0100, Frederico S. Muñoz wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brent Fulgham" <brent.fulgham@xpsystems.com>
> To: "Frederico S. Muñoz" <frederico.munoz@capgemini.pt>;
> <debian-hurd@lists.debian.org>
> Sent: Friday, September 29, 2000 5:37 PM
> Subject: RE: Trying to compile
>
>
> > > The first victim was tree, that vital component of every
> > > system; I got the src deb, made a dpkg-source -x ***.dsc
> > > (I had the diff and the tar.gz) and it expanded nicely;
> > > I then made a simple configure && make; there were
> > > issued with MAXPATHLEN - I red about that in the Debian
> > > GNU/Hurd page; seing this, I made such a brutish hack that
> > > I won't even sy it in public; anyway, ir compiled and it worked.
> > >
> > Great. I think Neal may have come up with a more permanent
> > solution, but perhaps this was just for one package.
>
> Well, I was happy to see it work, but there must be a real solution (well,
> since we are on a private mailing list I will share my shameful hack: I
> changed every ocurrence of MAXPATHLEN with 30!!!!)
You might want to use a larger number. I just checked in the linux
header's last night and it turned out to be 4095. I've been just defining
MAXPATHLEN in key places (with _HURD_ ifdef) in the packages I've been
fooling with.
> [snip]
Steve
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