Re: RPC implementation - Help me please

[Samuel Thibault]

Madhusudan C.S, le Thu 28 Aug 2008 00:23:36 +0530, a écrit :
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 3:54 AM, Samuel Thibault 
> <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
> wrote:
> 
>     IIRC you need to recompile glibc too, to have the RPC functions added to
>     libhurduser.
> 
> 
> apt-get source glibc and dpkg-buildpackage -uc -B fails for some weird
> compilation errors in bsd files. I forgot to log the errors. Is this a known
> bug or is it necessary to give the build logs to find out what it is?

IIRC it's a know error. hurd=20080607-4 will fix it, you can fetch its
debian/ directory from
svn://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-hurd/hurd/trunk/debian

> Moreover dpkg-buildpackage again is such a pain. Is there any
> alternative for building and installing glibc from source?

Well in any case glibc is very long to compile yes.  Maybe it's possible
to just ask for the compilation of libhurduser though.

Samuel