Is hurd buildable/runnable with gcc 3.2 cross compiler?

[Burton Samograd]

Hi,

With getting to know the hurd, I'm attempting to do a full build since that's
always been the best way for me to learn the first parts of any os.  I have a
couple of questions that some of the hurd developers should be able to answer:

1) All the build instructions I've seen for doing cross compilation seem to
specify quite old versions of gcc (2.7.*).  Is hurd buildable/runnable with
newer versions or is that unkown and needs to be tested? (Which i'm glad to try
out, but not willing to completely waste my time with considering my limited
knowledge of hurd at the moment).

2) I've pulled gnumach from cvs but run into configuration problems when it
tries to check the oskit version.h.  I have found oskit, and have attempted to
compile it natively on hurd, which unfortunately doesn't work. The build dies
after a while with paging errors and trashes more than a few inodes and sectors,
all recoverable by fsck gladly.   I'm going to attempt to build it again by
individual directories to solve the problem, but I would like to know if it's
possible to build it using the cross compiler.  The configure output doesn't
look very good though, with it complaining:

configure: warning: cross-compiling gcc too old for x86-oskit-gcc, not
installing it

This is with gcc 2.95.3 as the cross compiler.  I won't attempt to build it with
3.2 until after the first question above is answered.

I would be attempting to build with gcc 3.2, but when i follow the instructions
for the older compilers (not blindly, but closely) I get a group of compilation
errors complaining about a missing signal.h, which I'm unsure how to fix.

Any help, tips or pointers are greatly appreciated.

burton

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