Re: add wget to hurd build?

[Ludovic Courtès]

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.

> Any chance of getting InetUtils onto
> that system so I can run ping? :-)

I’ve just added it, but ping’s packets don’t seem to go through.  It may
be that QEMU doesn’t forward ICMP packets, though.

Oh, and the image now also has gdb and a few other things.

Thanks!

Ludo’.