Re: [PATCH] gnu: base: Add Glibc-Hurd.

[Manolis Ragkousis]

> I believe the ‘modules’ field can be omitted.
Done, I forgot to do that in the first place :P
>
>> +    (propagated-inputs `(("gnumach-headers" ,gnumach-headers)
>> +                         ("hurd-headers" ,hurd-headers)
>> +                         ("hurd-minimal" ,hurd-minimal)))
>
> Add a one-line comment saying why they’re propagated.

Actually I am not sure, should they be propagated? Linux glibc does it
this way, because

>  ;; Glibc's <limits.h> refers to <linux/limit.h>, for instance, so glibc
>  ;; users should automatically pull Linux headers as well.

Should I change it to inputs?

> Is --host the only thing that differs from ‘glibc’?  If so, we need to
> factorize things.

In order for glibc/hurd to build, we need to remove

> (string-append "--with-headers="
>                            (assoc-ref %build-inputs "linux-headers")
>                            "/include")
> "--enable-kernel=2.6.30"
> ;; XXX: Work around "undefined reference to `__stack_chk_guard'".
> "libc_cv_ssp=no"

which are linux specific, and add

> "--host=i686-pc-gnu"
> "--disable-profile"
> "--disable-multi-arch"
> "--disable-nscd"
> "--enable-obsolete-rpc"

How do you suggest doing it? :-)

> However, why do the headers need to be copied in the first place?  I
> believe the sysdeps headers of add-ons are automatically picked up the
> libc’s build system normally.  Could you check what’s going on?

When these headers are included, they are used like that
> <bits/...>
so, while they are normally included in the path, it only looks in the
directory "bits/" for them not in libpthread/sysdeps/generic/bits/.

Any suggestions?


> Remove #t, otherwise the result of ‘zero?’ is ignored.
Done.

>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/gnu/packages/patches/glibc-manual-fix.patch
>> @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
>> +diff --git a/manual/contrib.texi b/manual/contrib.texi
>> +index 3b9d23c..376b40d 100644
>> +--- a/manual/contrib.texi
>> ++++ b/manual/contrib.texi
>> +@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
>> address@hidden deftypefun
>> + @node Contributors, Free Manuals, Platform, Top
>> + @c %MENU% Who wrote what parts of the GNU C Library
>> + @appendix Contributors to @theglibc{}
>
> What’s this?  (Missing explanation.)

Without this, I get the error
> ./contrib.texi:1: @node seen before @end deftypefun

Manolis