dhcpcd: FTBFS on Hurd

Martin-Éric Racine

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Nov 24, 2023, 1:20:04 AM11/24/23

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Greetings,

As dhcpcd is slated to replace dhclient as the default DHCP client in
Debian, I've been trying to fix the build on Hurd, which is the only
architecture that has repeatedly FTBFS. Most of this has merely
required fixing missing includes so far.

Help is welcome, especially from people who have access to a live Hurd
host and who would be able to test the binaries, and also to help me
finalize the port.

Cheers!
Martin-Éric

Andrea Bolognani

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Nov 26, 2023, 5:40:04 AM11/26/23

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I'll just point out that, if you haven't done so already, you can
easily get GNU/Hurd running in a VM and work on your port in there.
I've done so recently to fix the decade+ long FTBFS streak for
libvirt and it was quite painless.

Despite the different kernel, it *is* still a Debian system in the
end, so most of your existing knowledge transfers over perfectly.

Thank you for your efforts! They're much appreciated :)

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Andrea Bolognani <e...@kiyuko.org>
Resistance is futile, you will be garbage collected.

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Martin-Éric Racine

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Jan 15, 2024, 4:20:04 AMJan 15

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Hey Joan,

Can you coordinate with Svante? He had apparently managed to port an
older version, but somehow never got around submitting his diff to
upstream. Upstream already indicated that he would welcome a diff,
even if it's against an older release.

Thanks!
Martin-Éric

On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 2:15 AM Joan Lledó <jll...@mailfence.com> wrote:
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> Hi Martin-Éric,
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> you can write me for help when you need it.
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> Regards

Joshua Branson

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Jan 17, 2024, 12:40:04 PMJan 17

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I am currently daily driving a GNU/Hurd Debian machine on a T43. I am
not especially a great coder, but I am happy to test to see if your code
builds and or runs. Can I get a link to your code?

Or are you just trying to build the latest dhcpcd from source?

Also what is FTBFS?

Also may I ask why Debian is switching to dhcpcd? Just curious.

Thanks,

Joshua

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Joshua Branson
Sent from the Hurd (and Gnus)

Samuel Thibault

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Jan 17, 2024, 12:50:04 PMJan 17

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Joshua Branson, le mer. 17 janv. 2024 12:09:30 -0500, a ecrit:

> Also may I ask why Debian is switching to dhcpcd? Just curious.

Because ISC is not maintaining its dhcp software any more.

Samuel

Jeffrey Walton

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Jan 17, 2024, 1:30:04 PMJan 17

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On Wed, Jan 17, 2024 at 12:33 PM Joshua Branson <jbr...@dismail.de> wrote:
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> Also what is FTBFS?

Failure to Build from Source.

Jeff

Svante Signell

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Jan 17, 2024, 3:50:04 PMJan 17

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I'm working on porting dhcpcd. No working installation yet :(

Thanks!

Martin-Éric Racine

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Jan 17, 2024, 4:20:04 PMJan 17

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ke 17. tammik. 2024 klo 22.44 Svante Signell
(svante....@gmail.com) kirjoitti:

Thanks for working on this.

Btw, you said earlier that you had managed to port some older release.
Upstream clearly indicated that he'd take that if you have it on hand.

Martin-Éric