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Re: OSKit mach w/St Pats
From: |
James Morrison |
Subject: |
Re: OSKit mach w/St Pats |
Date: |
Thu, 6 Jun 2002 09:13:06 -0700 (PDT) |
Look back in the bug-hurd archives to around st. Pats day.
--- Derek L Davies <ddavies@ddavies.net> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Has anyone tried to build OSKit-Mach using a locally built St
> Patrick's day OSKit (ie not a prebuilt OSKit)? It would be great if
> someone wanted to post a synopsis of what they did -- the last time I
> looked at what doc was available it left me guessing. I don't mind
> that so much, but there were two basic questions that I did not want
> to guess about:
>
> - What is the label to use when getting OSKit-Mach from CVS? Better
> yet, what is the exact command?
Oskit-mach is the mainline cvs for gnumach now.
> - What configure options did you use to configure OSKit-Mach to
> build against your local OSKit tree? Was cross compilation
> involved?
>
> Even if you tried and were unsuccessful it's still useful to me to
> hear about what went wrong.
>
> I am still hacking on the random pool for OSKit and sometimes think it
> would be good to try it under OSKit-Mach, so that I can see how the
> interfaces work there. Right now I only have an OSKit example kernel
> that I've made up and I'm not quite sure if I'm using stuff that is
> properly internal to OSKit. I'm thinking that by using the random
> pool interfaces from another system it will clear up some questions I
> have that haven't been anwsered on the oskit-users list.
>
> Thanks,
> Derek
>
It would be cool to have a random pool. My oskit-mach kernel I used since St.
Pats day. However, I stopped using it two days ago because of some weird
hardware failure.
=====
James Morrison
University of Waterloo
Computer Science - Digital Hardware
2A co-op
http://hurd.dyndns.org
Anyone referring to this as 'Open Source' shall be eaten by a GNU
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