Re: Checking out /gnumach exits with error, cause 'aux' reserved on cvsnt

2006-02-06 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Ashish Gokhale, le Sun 05 Feb 2006 19:07:17 +, a écrit : > I checked for the error message "cvs [checkout > aborted]: could not chdir to gnumach/i386/aux: Invalid > argument" > I am using windows2000 to download & study the GnuMach > source code. It seems 'aux' is a reserved word & its Ah

Re: Checking out /gnumach exits with error, cause 'aux' reserved on cvsnt

2006-02-06 Thread Thomas Schwinge
On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 09:59:08PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Ashish Gokhale, le Sun 05 Feb 2006 19:07:17 +, a ?crit : > > I checked for the error message "cvs [checkout > > aborted]: could not chdir to gnumach/i386/aux: Invalid > > argument" > > I am using windows2000 to download & study

pcmcia-support for gnumach-1

2006-02-06 Thread Stefan Siegl
hi folks, I've somewhat successfully ported the pcmcia-core, the i82365 bridge driver as well as the pcnet_cs (NE-2000 compatible cards) driver from Linux's card services to gnumach (not oskit, but the gnumach-1-branch). The "success" already has been announced on #hug last wednesday, however az

Re: No to StowFS!

2006-02-06 Thread Richard M. Stallman
when you build a program to work on an directory, all that you will need from that package is the binary location. I do not understand any of that. I think you need to give labels to the various entities that you are talking about, and describe their relationships clearly. What you

Re: No to StowFS!

2006-02-06 Thread Richard M. Stallman
What he's saying is, rather than doing this, you should just have a utility that keeps the PATH environment variable updated (by adding hte packages' bin/ and sbin/ directories), updates ld.so.conf, and so on. This would be a big step backward. It would result in gigantic PATH val

Re: No to StowFS!

2006-02-06 Thread Richard M. Stallman
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 / -name *something*". So, we need to correct those scripts. (* There are scripts with references to /usr/python or /usr/local/perl) Doesn't find know enough not

Re: No to StowFS!

2006-02-06 Thread Karl Berry
Doesn't find know enough not to follow symlinks to directories? Indeed, by default, it does not follow symlinks to directories. I would think it ought to. find / -P -name FOO What does -P do? I don't see it in the documentation of find on my machine. It's in the info m

Re: No to StowFS!

2006-02-06 Thread Karl Berry
I do not think that keep a loop symlink of USR->/ is a good idea, I admit I'm not sure of all the context here, but is there some proposal that /usr will not resolve in GNU? That seems impractical to me. Virtually everything ever written uses /usr, one way or another. ___