news: debian-hurd 2011-10 and 11 added

1 files changed, 22 insertions, 3 deletions

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@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ This month [hurd hacker]  [item]
 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00079.html> -- Bouju
 Alain submitted a patch to suport cpuinfo in the /proc interface
 
-rbraun committed the last patch to mplanetas branch of the slab allocator
+Richard Braun committed the last patch to mplanetas branch of the slab allocator
 work, for integration. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-12/msg00046.html
 
 
@@ -59,10 +59,25 @@ Debugging:
 
 - Pino Toscano: recvfrom() with null http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00161.html
 - Maksym Planeta: tmpfs http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00125.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00118.html 
-- Samuel Thibault: libtool http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00073.html mknod http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00070.html  Fix POSIX 2008 visibility http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-12/msg00004.html
+- Samuel Thibault: libtool http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00073.html mknod http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00070.html  Fix POSIX 2008 visibility http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-12/msg00004.html sudo setresuid http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=645285
 - Jim Meyering: gnu tools with user id 4294967295 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00094.html
 - Paul Eggert:  Add error-checking on GNU http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00130.html
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+
+Porting: 
+
+- Sergio Lopez: webkitgtk+: http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/10/msg00025.html
+- Svante Signell: pax: http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/10/msg00105.html abiword http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/11/msg00035.html syslog-ng http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/11/msg00060.html ecl http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/11/msg00058.html
+- Samuel Thibault: packagekit: http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/10/msg00071.html evolution http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/10/msg00070.html
+
+Samuel Thibault: /dev/urandom as native translator: http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/11/msg00092.html
+
+Samuel Thibault identified three easy porting cases: http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/11/msg00095.html: 
+
+- undefined reference to dl_foo: add -ldl for building
+- undefined reference to `main': missing gnu* case in the linking part of configure.ac or .in (pd-* packages are already being handled by their maintainer)
+- undefined reference to clock_gettime or crypt: add -lrt or -lcrypt
+
+Richard Brauh added Exodar, a new porter box, which is faster and reliable: exodar.debian.net
 
 Bouju Alain: Procfs with cpuinfo http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00084.html
 
@@ -82,6 +97,10 @@ Pino Toscano and Thomas Schwinge: pthread improvements: http://lists.gnu.org/arc
 
 Sergio Lopez documented his work on Better Memory Management and memfs: http://www.bddebian.com/~hurd-web/user/Sergio_Lopez/
 
+Guillem Jover: First step for porting to x64: Fix Mach's int vs long discrepancy: http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/10/msg00053.html
+
+Svante Signell: e2fsprogs quota fixes: http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/10/msg00015.html
+
 As a sidenote, we would like to share a story about real-life debugging with the Hurd:
 
     <youpi> yay GNU/Hurd