Re: Hurd compilation

[Samuel Thibault]

Thomas Thomas, le Wed 25 Apr 2012 18:22:10 -0700, a écrit :
> So, first a question: I downloaded and am using Thibault's Hurd image. I 
> downloaded the build dependancies, cloned the hurd repo, compiled it, and did 
> "make install" (for the life of me I don't know why I thought that that was a 
> good idea). Everything seems to have gone well, but I can't boot. My guess is 
> that the upstream Hurd still can't mount a filesystem larger than 2 GiB. Am I 
> correct,

Yes.

> and if so why?

Because the >2GiB patch hasn't been reviewed yet.

> My second question: it appears that there are no GSoC students working on 
> porting the Hurd over to pthreads. If one wanted to toy with doing so, how 
> would you advise them to begin such work?

By checking the existing work :)

https://savannah.gnu.org/task/?5487

Samuel