Re: Any Hurd porters interested in getting MariaDB working?

On 2025-12-21 21:50, [email protected] wrote:
> On 2025-12-20 10:28, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:
>> Are there any Hurd porters with an interest in getting MariaDB working
>> in the port?
>> 
>> I am happy to take your patches, do additional testing and do uploads.
>> Unfortunately I can't do the actual port fixing myself as there is too
>> much work and the domain is something I am not strong in. My attempt
>> at fixes at 
>> https://salsa.debian.org/mariadb-team/mariadb-server/-/merge_requests/145
>> did get some progress, so if you want to take on this challenge, you
>> don't need to start from zero.
> 
> I've looked at that MR and found that the patch is mainly about 
> disabling cracklib related features of MariaDB. I guess it might be 
> because cracklib is failed to build on Hurd. So I've tried to fix 
> cracklib build on Hurd and created a MR on it at 
> https://salsa.debian.org/debian/pkg-cracklib/-/merge_requests/6. If 
> cracklib can be built successfully on Hurd, I think MariaDB can be 
> built successfully automatically. If I'm wrong, please point out.

I've re-checked the MR and I'm a little wrong. Besides cracklib problem, 
there are some other compiling issues, which have already been described 
in MR comment. Sorry that I didn't check it carefully.