Victory! GNU Pth built / tested on Hurd!
Reply-To: doug.hilton@engineer.com
This, I imagine will be a bit of good news :-)
I had to do some severely ugly hacking to get
configure past the well-known sigaltstack problem,
but once I was able to do this, I was able to
compile pth using the following configure switches:
./configure --with-mctx-mth=sjlj --with-mctx-dsp=sjljlx \
--with-mctx-stk=none --enable-pthread
What we are doing here is taking advantage of the fact
that pth provided for the 2.0 linux kernel which did
not have functioning sigstack or sigaltstack, to the
mctx-dsp=sjljlx was an i386 dependant hack around the
problem.
My hypothesis was the Hurd-i386 would be similar enough
that this would work. I was able to compile pth and
it passed its self-tests all OK.
Certainly further testing is in order, and I will attempt
to make a Hurd-friendly patch for pth and get it posted
asap.
- Doug
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