Re: add wget to hurd build?

[Simon Josefsson]

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> 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.

Now it works, but I am running a more recent image now.

>> Any chance of getting InetUtils onto
>> that system so I can run ping? :-)
>
> I’ve just added it,

Thank you!

> but ping’s packets don’t seem to go through.  It may be that QEMU
> doesn’t forward ICMP packets, though.

It should, it works from my Debian virtual machines.

However, it may very well be that InetUtils ping is buggy on Hurd.

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

Awesome.  How about gawk and diffutils (especially for cmp)?  Or at
least mawk, I noticed gawk doesn't build without an awk.  mawk built
fine for me and appears to work.

/Simon