Hello, First of all, thanks to Thomas Schwinge for patiently replying to my Savannah generated e-mail and directing me to the projects page. I did not want to reply saying just 'thanks' as the CC: list of people was long and I did not want to further disturb people in their work.
I'm learning the code base of Mach and trying to setup a development environment. I want to be able to build Mach so I can view the compiler warnings and do some cleanup of the code as is written in the project idea here: <http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/community/gsoc/project_ideas/ gnumach_cleanup.html> But there are a few minor problems I noticed: 1. There should be a note in the Hacking Guide that the specific cvs branch recommended there is not being maintained anymore, as the configure script fails when setting up the build. The git version seems to work. 2. On a Fedora system with flex installed, I had to add /mig/lexxer.l: '%option noyywrap' as otherwise linker fails with an undefined reference. (This might be related to [4.] below.) 3. I don't see the usefulness of creating symbolic links as recommended here: <http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/microkernel/mach/mig/gnu_mig/ building.html> '$ ln -s ~/gnu/bin/mig ~/bin/' really does not do anything useful since the 'make gnumach.gz' searches for libexec in the '../' of the location of mig binary. So if a symbolic link is made it will search in ~ which is not where libexec is. 4. I have the same problem: <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2013-02/msg00119.html> mig -n -cc cat - /dev/null \ -user vm/memory_object_user.user.c -header vm/ memory_object_user.user.h \ -list vm/memory_object_user.user.msgids \ < vm/lib_dep_tr_for_defs_a-memory_object_user.user.defs.o "../include/mach/memory_object.defs", line 32: syntax error Is this possibly related to [2.] above? Maybe the mig binary was incorrectly built. Is there another way I could see the compiler warnings of the Mach build? I want to be able to make adjustments to the code while at the same time making sure that my changes don't produce some side effects. Thanks.
