Re: cross compilation problems

[Daniel E . Baumann]

> Don't.  Compile hurd natively.

Yeah I think I ran into some problem trying to do that. Although I did not
craete a separate build directory as I was discussing with someone on IRC the
other night. Do you need to make a separate build driectory?

> Useful for compiling gnumach but hurd builds fine natively.  Since you're
> using Debian packages, get the hurd sources into some directory, then
> 
>       dpkg-source -x hurd*.dsc                #  extract sources
>       cd hurd*
>       dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us               #  build without signing
> 
> And it'll build debs for you.  You'll need dpkg-dev and maybe some
> friends installed which you should probably already have.
> 
> If you have to restart because of some runaway translators (reported
> on debian-hurd list), add the -nc flag to dpkg-buildpackage to avoid
> starting from scratch.

I wanted to build from CVS because it is the most up to date (isn't it?) and I
would like to get the tunnel interface in pfinet (which Marcus commited
to CVS a while ago) so I can get BSD user space PPP working with it.
Although I think I may also have to build GNU Mach to get the com port fixes
there, also. I am just shooting for something that will help me get PPP
working. Does minicom work under the HURD? This would be nice to use to talk
to my modem just to see if it works.

I think I shall try to compile all these natively since it should be easier.

Thanks,
Dan
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