Re: some general and some not so general programming questions

[Neal H. Walfield]

> 4. BTW. I tried to compile libpthread. It resulted in the error
> "/include/libc-symbol.h needed by lockfile.d".
>     Checking the makefile revealed that the line -i macros
> $(srcdir)/include/libc-symbols.h was responsible for this. So I thought that
> srcdir might not be defined. But in $(HURD_BASE)/Make_conf does define it if
> not already defined.

Please provide the exact commands you use to configure and compile the
Hurd.