cross-gnu revived

2010-04-12 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! This is just to tell you that cross-gnu is back alive. See . Next is C++ support, integrating futher glibc / GCC stuff from my various scattered repositoreis, as well as the Debian ones. (Also pushing bit by bit upstrea

Re: Building software for the Hurd

2010-04-12 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
On 12/04/10 22:31, Patrik Olsson wrote: > Hello, > > I wonder how to build software for the Hurd, and then run it. I think I > need some cross compiler environment, but I'm not sure how to build it. > > Is this (link below) the recommended procedure for setting up a > cross-compilation environmen

Re: Building software for the Hurd

2010-04-12 Thread Patrik Olsson
On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 22:47 +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > On 12/04/10 22:31, Patrik Olsson wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I wonder how to build software for the Hurd, and then run it. I think I > > need some cross compiler environment, but I'm not sure how to build it. > > > > Is this (link b

Re: Building software for the Hurd

2010-04-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Patrik Olsson, le Mon 12 Apr 2010 22:31:11 +0200, a écrit : > I wonder how to build software for the Hurd, and then run it. I think I > need some cross compiler environment, but I'm not sure how to build it. Mmm, it is a lot simpler to just install it (or use the qemu image from http://tinyurl.com

Re: The Hurdish Package Manager

2010-04-12 Thread Patrik Olsson
On Sat, 2010-04-10 at 12:16 +0200, olafbuddenha...@gmx.net wrote: > > > Just not sure what change I should make for that patch you want... I > > have virtually no knowledge of the code in Hurd. I have cloned > > hurd.git and unionfs.git from Savannah because I felt they were > > relevant. Cannot f

Building software for the Hurd

2010-04-12 Thread Patrik Olsson
Hello, I wonder how to build software for the Hurd, and then run it. I think I need some cross compiler environment, but I'm not sure how to build it. Is this (link below) the recommended procedure for setting up a cross-compilation environment and doing cross-compilations? Actually, my question

Re: GSoC: Call for mentors

2010-04-12 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Montag, 12. April 2010 13:49:03 schrieb Carl Fredrik Hammar: > No, only the following projects have been applied for: VM tuning (2 > times), libcap, Hurdish package manager, and fixing various test suits. > In addition, porting Debian installer to Hurd has been applied for with > Debian as mento

Re: uid_t vs. gid_t (was: The Hurdish Package Manager)

2010-04-12 Thread Patrik Olsson
On Sat, 2010-04-10 at 12:09 +0200, olafbuddenha...@gmx.net wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 11:42:25AM +0200, Patrik Olsson wrote: > > > I have found one thing that seems incorrect in > > hurd.git/hurd/password.defs. See the parameter/field "group" in > > "password_check_group"? Shouldn't

Re: Can't use GDB to debug gnumach

2010-04-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Karim Allah Ahmed, le Mon 12 Apr 2010 13:45:49 +0200, a écrit : > >(gdb) break i386at_init > >Breakpoint 2 at 0x100790: file ../i386/i386at/model_dep.c, line 322. > >(gdb) continue > >Continuing. > > (here the gnumach simply restarts giving me back the boot loader , as if it > didn't even breaks a

Can't use GDB to debug gnumach

2010-04-12 Thread Karim Allah Ahmed
I'm currently trying to debug gnumach running on Qemu with GDB and i did the following >qemu -s /path/to/image/hurd.img (Though QEMU docs said that : "In order to use gdb, launch qemu with the ’-s’ option. It will wait for a gdb connection" , it didn't wait it simply launced grub and gave me the b

Re: GSoC: Call for mentors

2010-04-12 Thread Carl Fredrik Hammar
Hello, On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 11:01:20PM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > Am Samstag, 10. April 2010 09:49:02 schrieb olafbuddenha...@gmx.net: > > Now we need to find mentors. So far only Samuel and me have signed up > > for some of the projects; but in case we get more than one slot, it is

Re: Error configuring gnumach

2010-04-12 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:04:27PM +, Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez wrote: > I got the last gnumach-1-branch from Savannah cvs and try to build it. These days, you're supposed to be using the Git repositories. See -> ``Git reposi

Error configuring gnumach

2010-04-12 Thread Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez
Hello. I got the last gnumach-1-branch from Savannah cvs and try to build it. After "autoreconf --install" i do "./configure" and i get the following error (in attachment). Am i doing something wrong?. Thanks, in advance. Regards. Jose. -- Not Registered GNU/Hurd User. Registered BSD User 51

[bug #28934] execve(path, args) should take path as a a relative path if it doesn't contain slashes

2010-04-12 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
Follow-up Comment #10, bug #28934 (project hurd): Err the glibc patch was not the one I finally used (I attached the wrong one). Here's the one I've used. I've tested in another VM and I see the same regression. Furthermore I've found that gcc stops working fine in a machine with a new glibc.so