Hi! >>>>> Marcus Brinkmann writes:
>> I am hoping that a single source package for glibc can be used to >> build for either linux or hurd. Is this possible? MB> Sure, but this is not as easy as it may sound. The current libc6 MB> maintainer is overworked, and someone has to change the Debian MB> building scripts and remove linux specific things like MB> architecture. I've already made several of these changes, which have already been merged into unstable/main/source/glibc-pre2.1_2.0.100-2.1.diff.gz. You can cross-compile that package by doing: debian/rules build arch=hurd-i386 I never finished the job, unfortunately, so the binary-arch rules are probably wrong for the Hurd, but it should at least give you a starting point. MB> So it will be faster to use "our" version of glibc for now. Other MB> ports are building from 2.1 pre versions, this has to be MB> investigated, too. BTW, Marcus... your earlier concern about Linux using a different dynamic linker than the Hurd has been resolved. As of the glibc-pre2.1 Debian packages, even the i386 uses the ld.so that is installed by glibc (since it now has all the functionality of the older ones). I don't think it would be too hard to transition to glibc-2.1, and it would definitely bring everybody back into sync. Anyway, that's just my opinion, considering that I probably won't be working on Hurd stuff except on weekends. Good luck, -- Gordon Matzigkeit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> //\ I'm a FIG (http://www.fig.org/) Lovers of freedom, unite! \// I use GNU (http://www.gnu.org/)
