Re: APT -- Hurd Building

[Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org>]

>>>>> "Brent" == Brent Fulgham <brent.fulgham@xpsystems.com> writes:

Brent, I'm forwarding this to the APT team -- I don't program it,
I just package it. :)

I hope someone can help Brent out.

    Brent> I'm working with Marcus on the Hurd port, and am having
    Brent> some trouble with Apt.  Some of the issues are related to
    Brent> the Hurd's incomplete implementation of Sockets, others are
    Brent> due to hurd-specific things that need to be done, and some
    Brent> are just bad compile configuration.

    Brent> I noticed in the code that you have some debugging logic,
    Brent> and I was wondering if you could fill me in on your debug
    Brent> framework and how to turn it on during a build.  Are there
    Brent> some compiler defines or configure parms that I could be
    Brent> setting to generate a version of apt that spews out verbose
    Brent> information about what it is doing?

    Brent> Thanks,

    Brent> -Brent

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