2012/2/15 shaunak saha <reach2shaunak02@gmail.com>:
> I was also running hurd on qemu but thought that for
> contributing to hurd i need to compile from source code.
You're absolutely right. Somehow I was under the impression that you
were trying to compile Hurd on Linux. (Which is possible and not
necessarily unreasonable, but rather involved as I implied earlier).
If you got an error while building in a Hurd installation, can you
please paste a longer error? (It is hard to say what is going wrong
from the two line you pasted earlier.) You could even redirect the
whole output of 'make' to a file (for instance, "make 2>&1 | tee
log.txt") and attach it to your next email.
Also, please indicate exactly what source you are using: did you 'git
clone' or used the Debian package? Which revision did you use?
> If i make some some changes in hurd or gnumach code and want it to build and
> run then what to do?Don't i need to build the code that time?
Yes absolutely.
You might also need to build the GNU C library, since many parts of
the Hurd are implemented there. Here I highly recommend you use the
Debian source --- it is the only version which is known to work; the
situation with the other repositories is a little bit messy.
(By the way if you or someone else would like to help sorting this
out, that would another possibility for a highly valuable and
appreciated contribution :-)