Re: uname -s and naming confusion
Tom Hart wrote: From my Oxford Dictionary of Current English (I'll avoid Merriam-Webster since it has several "bugs" involving the spellings of words like "colour", "honour", "theatre", "centre", etc.): operating system (n.) basic software that enables the running of a computer program. Sounds like BIOS on arcane architectures like Intel's 32bit. Or maybe something even "lower", since BIOS is a "computer program". Most of the definitions I have come across are pretty flawed. The best so far (in my opinion) are the "Resource Principle", "Beautification Principle" and "Principle of Levels" (disregard any speLing mistEkes). But, I believe that they primarily describe a kernel of the operating system. But any program whatsoever, which enables *working with a computer* is, I believe, part of an *operating system*. As some would say, Doom (or anything newer) is the best part of my operating system :) ___ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
Glibc build failure on i386-gnu
Sometime since 2003-01-13 one of the Make* changes appears to have broken the i386-gnu build. (Hopefully minus typos, sorry - had to copy it to a sheet of paper so I could get to my email) make -C ../mach generated no_deps=t make[3]: Entering directory `/disks/7/cvstree/glibc-cvs/mach' make[3]: *** No rule to make target `/disks/7/cvstree/build.glibc/mach/mach/mach_interface.h', needed by `/disks/7/cvstree/build.glibc/mach/mach-shortcuts.h'. Stop. make[3]: Leaving directory `/disks/7/cvstree/glibc-cvs/mach' make[2]: *** [/disks/7/cvstree/build.glibc/mach/mach-shortcuts.h] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/disks/7/cvstree/glibc-cvs/hurd' make[1]: *** [/disks/7/cvstree/build.glibc/hurd/hurd/auth.h] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/disks/7/cvstree/glibc-cvs' Sorry I don't have time to try and hunt it down right now. Tks, Jeff Bailey ___ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
