git for Debian GNU/Hurd (was: Setting ones's priorities)

[Thomas Schwinge]

Hello!

On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 09:21:21AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> No, you should spend your time on the Hurd, because there are fewer
> people that can do that work.  Keep track of programs that have PATH_MAX
> or access(NULL) problems, and when people say, "how can I help", we can
> point them at this list.
> 
> File Debian bug reports on the Debian packages concerned.  Let the
> Debian maintainers cope with dealing with upstream (after all, it's what
> they have volunteered for).

As both these two paragraphs didn't work out as described, I went ahead
and decided to do the work myself...  The patches are submitted to the
git mailing list, the ``access (NULL, m)'' one already got applied, the
trivial `Makefile' one not yet, but I think that's just because the
maintainer missed it in all those hundreds of emails rushing through that
mailing list.  I'll resubmit that one somewhen later.


Michael, again, please apply these two attached patches to the Debian
`git' package, build and upload.  You did say that the Debian git build
system does not run the included git test suite, right?  Because running
that one may still do harm to the ext2fs file system translator which is
serving the build directory.  (See
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2007-05/msg00002.html> for my
original report about that problem.)


Regards,
 Thomas

0001-Support-building-on-GNU-Hurd.patch
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0002-Don-t-rely-on-unspecified-behavior.patch
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