Comment author: administrator

One of debian's architecture is hurd-i386, and the ocaml package builds
successfully for it, altough the native code compiler is not built.

Would the native code compiler for hurd/i386 be a big change from
the linux/i386 native code compiler, or is it just a matter of
setting the propper stuff in the configure script ?

No idea. I have never looked at a Hurd-x86 system, and have no plans
to do so. (We already have enough excellent Unix kernels for the
x86 PC; the Hurd is just too little too late.)

You could try to configure for i386-pc-linux or i386-pc-bsd and see if
it works. If it does, great; I'll add one line to the configure
script. If it doesn't, too bad; I won't embark in a port.

• Xavier Leroy

Comment author: administrator

On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 01:55:45PM +0100, Xavier Leroy wrote:

One of debian's architecture is hurd-i386, and the ocaml package builds
successfully for it, altough the native code compiler is not built.

Would the native code compiler for hurd/i386 be a big change from
the linux/i386 native code compiler, or is it just a matter of
setting the propper stuff in the configure script ?

No idea. I have never looked at a Hurd-x86 system, and have no plans
to do so. (We already have enough excellent Unix kernels for the
x86 PC; the Hurd is just too little too late.)

You could try to configure for i386-pc-linux or i386-pc-bsd and see if
it works. If it does, great; I'll add one line to the configure
script. If it doesn't, too bad; I won't embark in a port.

I will try, that was really all i was asking about.

But i don't have a hurd box, so this may take a long time, anyway, there is no
urgency, i was just curious.

Friendly,

Sven Luther

Comment author: administrator

Let's pretend Hurd = Linux and see if it works...