Re: [PATCH v3 4/6] hurd: Add expected abilist files for x86_64

[Sergey Bugaev]

On Tue, May 2, 2023 at 11:43 PM Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Sergey Bugaev, le mar. 02 mai 2023 22:58:24 +0300, a ecrit:
> > redoing bootstrap sounds rather interesting and challenging. It's not
> > the most interesting thing right now though, which is why I haven't
> > started really doing it yet.
>
> On that side, I'm working on it for the Debian part. It's almost ready
> actually, it just needs fixing here and there (and that's actually
> basically debian packaging concerns anyway, since you all did all the
> upstream parts already ;) ) ).

Ah, I've meant bootstrap as in servers bootstrap, bootstrapfs, all
that. Getting Hurd proper to run on x86_64 *is* the most interesting
thing right now, which is why I'm doing it :)

I see [0] -- is that it? Cool!

[0]: https://salsa.debian.org/glibc-team/glibc/-/commits/hurd-amd64

How does this work -- how does the Debian tooling know what
'hurd-amd64' means? Is the full list of Debian package architectures
defined somewhere?

Are you doing anything else other than glibc as well? I guess it
should be possible to cross-build just about anything that does not
depend on hurd-libs.

How is this meant to be used -- will I be able to point apt somewhere
(where?) and just download the built package(s)?

Sergey