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Re: add wget to hurd build?
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Simon Josefsson |
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Re: add wget to hurd build? |
Date: |
Sat, 19 Nov 2011 22:12:47 +0100 |
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address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> Hi!
>
> Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>>
>>> So there’s wget. But running wget is not so trendy. Instead, you can
>>> enjoy GNU’s unprecedented feature set like this:
>>>
>>> $ cp /ftp:/ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gnutls/gnutls-3.0.8.* ~
>>>
>>> See <http://www.gnu.org/s/hurd/hurd/documentation/translator_primer.html>
>>> for details on the magic involved.
>>
>> I couldn't get this to work, alas, I get either a 'No such file or
>> directory' or 'Error in unknown error system: FFFFFFFE'.
>
> Oh nice. :-) I’ve never seen that yet.
>
>> I'm not sure network is working.
>
> In the absence of ping, you could still try “wget www.gnu.org”. If that
> works, then you should also be able to cd /ftp:/ftp.gnu.org.
Now it works, but I am running a more recent image now.
>> Any chance of getting InetUtils onto
>> that system so I can run ping? :-)
>
> I’ve just added it,
Thank you!
> but ping’s packets don’t seem to go through. It may be that QEMU
> doesn’t forward ICMP packets, though.
It should, it works from my Debian virtual machines.
However, it may very well be that InetUtils ping is buggy on Hurd.
> Oh, and the image now also has gdb and a few other things.
Awesome. How about gawk and diffutils (especially for cmp)? Or at
least mawk, I noticed gawk doesn't build without an awk. mawk built
fine for me and appears to work.
/Simon