Joan Lledó, le dim. 12 oct. 2025 18:00:19 +0200, a ecrit:
> From: Joan Lledó <[email protected]>
> 
> Add some paragraphs to OS section in BUILDING.md
> 
> * Add instructions on how to compile on the Hurd.
> * Inform about current state of the port.
> ---
>  BUILDING.md | 13 +++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/BUILDING.md b/BUILDING.md
> index b70022c8..a5c7e0ca 100644
> --- a/BUILDING.md
> +++ b/BUILDING.md
> @@ -136,6 +136,19 @@ are disabled by default.
>  For Valgrind, it needs to unlink the pipe files which it can't do anyway
>  as it's dropped permissions. Otherwise it works fine.
>  
> +GNU/Hurd requires liblwip and libpcap to be installed as build dependencies.
> +
> +GNU/Hurd platform is not automatically detected by the configure script

It should be easy to detect it, configure already uses uname -s turned
lowercase, which produces "gnu". Actually dhcpcd's configure already has
a

gnu*) OS=hurd;; # No HURD support as yet

is that not working already?

> +IPv6 support, privilege separation, and detection of network configuration 
> changes
> +are not yet implemented for the Hurd platform. Configure options 
> `--disable-inet6`
> +and `--disable-privsep` are required.

Can they not be automatically disabled when configuring on GNU/Hurd?

Samuel

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