Re: develop hurd on virtual machine

[Michael Banck]

Hi,

On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 02:58:51PM +0200, christian nastasi wrote:
> Ok, some new questions.
> For the previous I understand on my own what can I do (or this is what I
> believe).
> - For the emulator I will use the bochs, because I see that there's an hurd
> image working with such emulator.

Qemu is also known to work, and much faster than bochs.

See http://hurd.gnufans.org/bin/view/Distrib/HurdOnQEMU

> - For the cross compiler I found the Thomas scripts at
> http://nic-nac-project.de/~schwinge/tmp/cross-gnu-env and
> http://nic-nac-project.de/~schwinge/tmp/cross-gnu
> 
> For these I have a problem. I follow the instruction reported in the file
> cross-gnu. First of all the gnumach-1-branch doesn't  work because in this
> tree "configure" and others were missing. 

You need to run `autoreconf -f -i' or something similar to generate
those, the automatically generated files have been removed from CVS
recently.

> So I decided to use the gnumach tree instead and it seems to be good.

The gnumach tree is unmaintained and known to be defunct.

> But same problem I found with the MIG.  Here follow the script output.
> "./cross-gnu: line 243:
> /home/chris/own/develop/gnu/hurd-cross-compilation/src/mig/configure: No
> such file or director"
> 
> What can I do?

See above.
 
> - My last question: does anybody used before the bochs and created some hurd
> image for it?

I haven't heard of people using Bochs for quite a while.


Michael