Re: trying to build gnumach.gz

2011-08-01 Thread Andrew Engelbrecht
On Tue, 2 Aug 2011 02:08:12 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: Indeed. flubber however does respond. Maybe you should request for an account there to be able to push changes via git. I do have an account on flubber already. Should I clone the repo in my flubber home directory, edit there and then p

Re: trying to build gnumach.gz

2011-08-01 Thread Andrew Engelbrecht
On Mon, 1 Aug 2011 16:51:52 -0700 (PDT), Roland McGrath wrote: I guess Fedora does not leave its 32bit libc.a in /usr/lib, and thus with -nostdlib it won't find it there. You need to pass LDFLAGS which lead to it. It is, but it's in a separate package called glibc-static that you don't get

Re: ***SPAM*** Re: trying to build gnumach.gz

2011-08-01 Thread Andrew Engelbrecht
On Mon, 01 Aug 2011 18:26:16 -0400, Andrew Engelbrecht wrote: configfrag.ac ends like this: # `${file}' and `$file' have different meanings here with respect to having the # files in the referenced directory considered for `make dist' or not. See # <http://lists.gnu.or

Re: ***SPAM*** Re: trying to build gnumach.gz

2011-08-01 Thread Andrew Engelbrecht
On Tue, 2 Aug 2011 00:15:03 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: Well, the Debian package does it too, but gets config.status: linking ../i386/i386 to machine It's odd that you get this output while the code is AC_CONFIG_LINKS([machine:$systype/$systype mach/machine:$systype/include

Re: trying to build gnumach.gz

2011-08-01 Thread Andrew Engelbrecht
On Mon, 1 Aug 2011 23:56:03 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: It should have been done at the end of ./configure (see the configfrag.ac file): I'm getting config.status: linking i386/i386 to machine config.status: linking i386/include/mach/i386 to mach/machine Here's what I'm getting: config.stat

Re: trying to build gnumach.gz

2011-08-01 Thread Andrew Engelbrecht
On Mon, 1 Aug 2011 21:56:35 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: Are you building on some x86_64 linux? Yes, 64bit Fedora. In that case it's deemed to fail since linux will try to build gnumach is 64bit mode. You need to cross-compile: I did configure using the --host=i386 flag, but I'll do it yo

trying to build gnumach.gz

2011-08-01 Thread Andrew Engelbrecht
Hello, I'm trying to build gnumach.gz from git, but I'm having some issues. I'm trying the instructions from: http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/microkernel/mach/gnumach/building.html , but i'm using git, not cvs, as it appears to be more up to date and the repos listed at http://www.gnu.org/s

ext2fs stability (in vm?)

2011-04-07 Thread Andrew Engelbrecht
Have you tried running fsck on the disk image? It won't solve any ext2fs server instability, but it should give you another shot at starting up. The only trick is doing it outside of qemu, since your system isn't booting up. Also, it's somewhat more complicated because it has multiple partitions.