Ludovic Courtès writes:
> Jan Nieuwenhuizen <jann...@gnu.org> skribis:
>
>> So, after digesting your message here I took the next step: grep for
>> _HURD_STARTUP and change it there, like so
>>
>> diff --git a/gnu/packages/hurd.scm b/gnu/packages/hurd.scm
>> index 421783eb80..8c73ea8430 100644
>> --- a/gnu/packages/hurd.scm
>> +++ b/gnu/packages/hurd.scm
>> @@ -428,9 +428,10 @@ exec ${system}/rc \"$@\"
>> "startup/startup.c")
>> (("/hurd/")
>> (string-append out "/hurd/")))
>> - (substitute* "hurd/paths.h"
>> - (("_HURD_STARTUP\t")
>> - (string-append "_HURD_STARTUP\t\"" out "\" ")))
>> + (substitute* '("libdiskfs/boot-start.c"
>> + "libdiskfs/opts-std-startup.c")
>> + (("_HURD_STARTUP")
>> + (string-append "\"" out "/hurd/startup\"")))
>
> Perfect! Perhaps we can add a comment explaining that this is needed
> for the first boot, when the /hurd symlink doesn’t exist yet.
That's a good idea. I've added a squash commit with
;; Upon first boot the /hurd symlink does not exist; it is
;; created during activation: Hard-code the .../hurd store file
;; name.
>> This also works, and so I figure we're fine now. I'm resetting
>> wip-hurd-vm and, like Mathieu suggested will prepare to send send a
>> patch series here for the unreviewed subset of patches.
>
> Thank you!
In other news, I've been playing with at "devel-hurd.tmpl" system and
just succeeded to build gnu-make-boot0! I still need sort of a hack to
include %bootstrap-gcc etc, but this gives me good hopes that we'll be
able create a functional VM to build substitutes after merging!
Greetings,
Janneke
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