Hello everyone, On 2 July 2015 at 12:12, Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> wrote: > 0. Run Guix’s ‘./configure --with-courage && make’ and see what > happens. > 1. ‘guix-daemon’ must work correctly on GNU/Hurd.
Already started working on them. Will report back today on my first results. > > 2. When building natively, surely you’ll find out that some packages > do not build (PATH_MAX!), and that there are assumptions in > hurd.scm and base.scm, such as the fact that GNU/Hurd is a > cross-compilation target and not a native system. I already have a pretty solid idea of what you mean. Will work around them as I progress. > 3. In parallel to that, I should review wip-hurd again and apply the > patches to a new ‘core-updates’ branch. Okay. > 4. Instead of sitting idle watching build logs ;-), it Would Be Nice™ > to implement the ‘mount’ and ‘umount’ functions for GNU/Hurd in > libc, with support for MS_BIND using /hurd/firmlink. > Of course libc hacking can be quite involved. So ideally Samuel, > Thomas, and others would give you detailed guidance and/or hack > power. What do people think? Yes, I think now it's the right time to start this. Expect questions as I work on this. :-) Meanwhile if the hurd guys have something to point out, please do. :-) > Another can of worms I forgot to mention is <hurd/paths.h>, which > assumes that translators live in /hurd, whereas we’ll rather have them > in /gnu/store/…/hurd. A question. Isn't it possible, that this will break the Hurd expected behavior? I think I should get a better understanding of how things work. Manolis
