Re: Have any difficulties arisen with the Lua scripting languaje into Hurd?

Hello,

Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez, le mar. 10 févr. 2026 15:37:08 +0100, a ecrit:
> How is it possible that at the end of last year, from one
> day to the next, the two best web browsers available on GNU/Hurd, Luakit
> and Surf, which are very similar and based on the same scripting
> language, Lua, went from working very satisfactorily to instantly
> terminating when launched, with the brief output ‘abort’?

Because of a bug? The abort message would probably be very informative.
Or a gdb backtrace, etc.

> Is it possible to investigate why this happened?.

Sure. For a simple start, you can check what package got upgraded
in between, and then try to downgrade/upgrade to verify which exact
package pose problems. But also simply actually pasting the abortion
message would provide the list with *way* more information than just
"terminates".

Samuel