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# bug-hurd discussion.


# IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2010-08-12

    <jkoenig> Looking at hurd.git, shouldn't {hurd,include}/Makefile's "all"
      target do something, and shouldn't pretty much everything depend on them?
      As it stands it seems that the system headers are used and the
      potentially newer ones never get built, except maybe on "install" (which
      is seemingly never called from the top-level Makefile)
    <jkoenig> I would fix it, but something tells me that maybe it's a feature
      :-)
    <antrik> jkoenig: the headers are provided by glibc, along with the stubs
    <jkoenig> antrik, you mean, even those built from the .defs files in hurd/
      ?
    <antrik> yes
    <jkoenig> oh, ok then.
    <antrik> as glibc provides the stubs (in libhurduser), the headers also
      have to come from there, or they would get out of sync
    <jkoenig> hmm, shouldn't glibc also provide /usr/share/msgids/hurd.msgids,
      then?
    <antrik> jkoenig: not necessarily. the msgids describe what the servers
      actually understand. if the stubs are missing from libhurduser, that's no
      reason to leave out the msgids...
    <jkoenig> ok this makes sense


# IRC, OFTC, #debian-hurd, 2011-09-29

    <tschwinge> pinotree: I don't like their existence.  IMO (but I haven't
      researched this in very much detail), every user of RPC stubs should
      generated them for themselves (and glibc should directly include the
      stubs it uses internally).
    <pinotree> sounds fair
    <pinotree> maybe they could be moved from glibc to hurd?
    <tschwinge> pinotree: Yeah; someone needs to research why we have them (or
      if it's only convenience), and whether we want to keep them.
    <pinotree> you could move them to hurd, leaving them unaltered, so binary
      compatibility with eventual 3rd party users is not broken
    <pinotree> but those using them, other than hurd itself, won't compile
      anymore, so you fix them progressively