Re: Building kernels
I started from the CVS tree. Bad show, that is. I'll try again from
the debian archive.
On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 01:11:08PM +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote:
> Marc Singer <elf@buici.com> writes:
>
> > Is Hurd self-hosting for this? Is there a HOWTO about building a
> > kernel?
>
> AFAIK, what I did was:
>
> $ apt-get source gnumach
> $ cd gnumach-*
> $ vi debian/rules
> [remove all the unnecessary --enable-... arguments to configure]
> $ debian/rules build
> [the following commands need root privileges]
> $ debian/rules binary
> $ cp /boot/gnumach.gz /boot/gnumach.old.gz
> $ dpkg -i ../gnumach_*.deb
>
> If you don't have apt, the first step can be simulated by fetching
> "/debian/dists/unstable/main/source/base/gnumach_*" from your nearest
> Debian mirror, and then issuing "dpkg-source -x gnumach_*.dsc"
>
> --
> Robbe
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