Re: No to StowFS!

2006-02-03 Thread Alfred M\. Szmidt
So you basically want a server -- it's not a translator -- receiving notifies of the /packages directory changes and reacting to dir_notify by changing the PATH environment variable of ALL processes. I am not an Hurd expert. How do you exactly plan to do it? I cannot either see how

Re: strict aliasing problem in GNU Mach

2006-02-03 Thread Thomas Schwinge
On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 05:06:26PM +0100, Gianluca Guida wrote: > Among lot of warning, while compiling GNU Mach with recent gcc's we > get lot of warnings related to strict aliasing optimization. This > might lead the compiler into producing incorrect code. > > I personally think that instead of

Re: No to StowFS!

2006-02-03 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 02:29:41AM +0100, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > Thing is that they are broken, figuring out where the interpeter is > should always be done at compile/configure time. Having perl in > /usr/local/bin is very common for example, and simply hardcoding it to > /usr/bin will make th

Re: No to StowFS!

2006-02-03 Thread Alfred M\. Szmidt
I know that there are A LOT of scripts that will need to be CORRECTED. Not as many as you think. Most scripts figure out where the interpeter is at compile/configure time. I do not think that keep a loop symlink of USR->/ is a good idea, since you will never be able to do a "find / -

Re: No to StowFS!

2006-02-03 Thread Gianluca Guida
Hi, On 2/3/06, Leonardo Pereira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Possibilities to make a stowfsed system booting: I was referring to *your* nowstowfs booting stuff, not mine. As already said previously on this thread, stowfs is implemented as a set of unionfs running, so no stowfs.static thing may h

Re: strict aliasing problem in GNU Mach

2006-02-03 Thread Alfred M\. Szmidt
2006-02-03 Thomas Schwinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Makerules.in: Add -fno-strict-aliasing to CFLAGS. * i386/linux/Makefile.in: Likewise for linux-gen-flags. The correct format is: * Makerules.in (CFLAGS): Added -fno-strict-aliasing. * i386/linux/Makefile.in (linux-

Re: strict aliasing problem in GNU Mach

2006-02-03 Thread Thomas Schwinge
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 08:05:23PM +0100, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: >2006-02-03 Thomas Schwinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Makerules.in: Add -fno-strict-aliasing to CFLAGS. > * i386/linux/Makefile.in: Likewise for linux-gen-flags. > > The correct format is: > >* Makerule