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authorSamuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>2009-03-27 23:29:10 +0100
committerSamuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>2009-03-27 23:29:10 +0100
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typos, add myself to possible mentors
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@@ -15,9 +15,9 @@ libusb, libbluetooth, libraw1394 etc.
The Hurd presently doesn't support these devices. Nevertheless, all of these
programs could still be built -- and most of them would indeed be useful --
-without actual support of these hardware devices. However, as the libraries are
-presently not available for Hurd, the programs can't be easily built in Debian
-GNU/Hurd due to missing dependencies.
+without actual support of these hardware devices, kdebase for instance. However,
+as the libraries are presently not available for Hurd, the programs can't be
+easily built in Debian GNU/Hurd due to missing dependencies.
This could be avoided by providing dummy libraries, which the programs could
link against, but which wouldn't actually do any hardware access: instead, they
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ special previous knowledge, though some experience with build systems would be
helpful. Finishing this task will probably require learning a bit about the
hardware devices in question, and about Debian packaging.
-Possible mentors:
+Possible mentors: Samuel Thibault (youpi)
Exercise: Get one of the libraries to compile on Debian GNU/Hurd. It doesn't
need to report reasonable error codes yet -- just make it build at all for now.