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-# Quick porting guide for simple packages
-
-*If you want to help port a package with simple issues to the Hurd, please read on.*
-
-*just imagine joe C-doodler stumbling over some GNU philosophy and thinking “hey, I’ve got 2 free hours, why not help the Hurd?”*
-*for him I’d like to have a guide (and for me, the faulty-memory-does-too-many-things :) )*
-
-*a short guide “how to do simple ports” broken down to command line level: how to get the list of simple packages (youpi told me that here), how to get the source, how to test the fix, how to submit the fix.*
-
-## Setup an instant Hurd development environment
-
-See [[Instant Development Environment|contributing#index5h2]] - just follow the command to get a Hurd running in Qemu.
-
-## Getting the list of failed packages
-
- wget http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/failed_packages.txt.gz
- gunzip failed_packages.txt.gz
-
-## Finding a simple task
-
- grep PATH_MAX failed_packages.txt -B 2
-
-Each of these packages is likely to be simple to fix. The output looks like this:
-
- …
- --
- tex/lilypond_2.12.3-7 by buildd_hurd-i386-mozart [optional:uncompiled:bp{-100}:calprio{-63}:days{258}]
- Reasons for failing:
- > file-name.cc:88: error: 'PATH_MAX' was not declared in this scope
- --
- …
-
-in this case, lilypond is the package.
-
-Other simple tasks can be found on [[hurd/porting/guidelines]].
-
-## Downloading the package source and installing dependencies
-
- apt-get source PACKAGE
- apt-get build-dep PACKAGE
-
-For example
-
- apt-get source lilypond
- apt-get build-dep lilypond
-
-## Fix the package
-
-See [[hurd/porting/guidelines]] for help on fixing the package.
-
-Notes:
-
-* char path[4096] is evil. Use dynamic allocation (if you can).
-* use stuff like if (x < sysconf(_SC_PATH_MAX)) {}
-* if need be, make it conditional
-
-\#ifdef PATH_MAX
-old, POSIX-violating code
-\#else
-GNU, better code
-\#endif
-
-## Test the fix (compile, run tests)
-
- cd PACKAGE
- dpkg-buildpackage -B
-
-Also check the packages README for instructions.
-
-## Submit the fix
-
-See [[hurd/running/debian/patch_submission]].