Re: Hurd from scratch?

On Tue, Jul 5, 2022 at 5:57 PM Samuel Thibault <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Peter Wiehe, le mar. 05 juil. 2022 22:52:04 +0200, a ecrit:
> > Is there a document describing a manual installation of Hurd? You know,
> like
> > Linux from scratch? I looked through the Hurd docu I could find, but I
> couldn't
> > find something.
>
> I'm not aware of any, but you can get details of the
> gnumach/hurd/glibc/gcc bootstrap dance in the cross-compilation
> documentation, it's basically the beginning of Hurd-from-scratch. Once
> you have gnumach/hurd/glibc/gcc done, the rest should be extremely
> similar to Linux-from-scratch, since in both cases it's just the GNU
> system, whatever the kernel :)
>

It is not a manual, but some time ago I wrote some scripts that do just
this: https://github.com/flavioc/cross-hurd
They are relatively easy to follow but I haven't run them in a while so you
could hit some roadblocks.

Flavio


>
> Samuel
>