Re: porting to hurd
I port completely the pkgsrc (of netbsd) to hurd, but there're two apps of pkgsrc that I prefer to do not port, because there're GNU versions of it, and are in debian package (lukemftp, pax).
The question now is... where can I found the patches for "pax"??
I think that hurd "ftp" command is completely useful on pkgsrc. I will just finish this patch today I think.
For now...we can say that pkgsrc works on Hurd :)
On Mon, 21 Apr 2003 11:08:56 +0200
"Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@kemisten.nu> wrote:
> I'm trying to port few apps to hurd, but I'm fell down in the
> typical question...what's the clean solution to solve the missing
> MAXPATHLEN, ARG_MAX, MAXHOSTNAMELEN,... defines?
>
> The clean solution is to fix the program so that it allocates the
> string dynamicly.
>
> A simple solution could be force CFLAGS to -DMAXPATHLEN=300 ...
> another solution could be to put this defines in sys/param.h like
> in linux.
>
> That wouldn't be GNUish since it forces an limit on the user.
>
> and the worst one is patch directly on the sources.
>
> Why is it the worst one? It fixes a bug and makes the program more
> portable. Can't see why that should be bad. :-)
>
> I think that could be nice to solve that in a standard way.
>
> The standard way of solving the MAXPATHLEN issue is to fix the program
> so that it uses malloc() instead.
>
>
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