Re: F3 on the way/main archive
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 05:35:43PM -0300, BlueKernel wrote:
> 1. Inclusion of ghhk into a package
> Reason: Ghhk is a tool used to cross-compile Hurd packages. Actually it's a
> hacking toolkit to cross-compile. Probably it won't be much useful after the
> Hurd 1.0 is released, but until then it can be much of a help.
> ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/hurd/ghhk/README
> ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/hurd/ghhk/
This is not longer maintained, if I understood Gordon correctly.
It is severly out of date.
The easiest way to get a working cross compilation setup is to mount
your Hurd partition under /gnu, fix the links in /gnu/lib so that they
are relative rather than absolute, and install the gcc-i386-gnu and
mig-i386-gnu packages on your Debian GNU/Linux machine.
That's all, and it works!
> 2. Sources
> Reason: I still don't understand why source codes aren't distributed under
> the CDs. Probably because it's very big, changed very offen and woundn't be
> much of a help. Nevertheless I think that Gnu/mach (and other basic) source
> codes should be included on the this distribution. It's very small (from a
> CD-ROM point of view) and also very important to Hurd development. It could
> be like a package with the whole content of GNU/mach CVS archive.
Sources are always good! Especially as Debian ships packages with binaries
stripped. :-/
> 3. ls
> Reason: Another thing that i haven't found on the Hurd distributions it's
> the common 'CD file/directory listing'. At least when i'm downloading a
> Debian GNU/Linux .ISO image there is always a file listing the whole CD-ROM.
Very good idea, if you ask me.
> 'The exchange of idea is the most important thing'.
Your ideas are all very good, although I would discourage cross compilation.
Many packages can't be cross compiled correctly.
I am only doing cross compilation for gnumach, hurd, glibc.
Everything else is (usually) compiled natively on the Hurd.
Thanks,
Marcus
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