From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: svante.signell@gmail.com
Cc: 25081@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25081: Anybody needs help to set up a qemu VM for GNU/Hurd?
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2016 14:36:57 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <94f4d6ff-a8fa-45c3-b15b-e4a4af04dca6@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1480603974.27168.10.camel@gmail.com>
I tried to get a qemu VM running for GNU/Hurd on my platform (Fedora 24
x86-64), and did not succeed.
The instructions in
https://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-i386/installer/cdimage/ talk
about running "apt-get install qemu-kvm". Obviously this won't work on
Fedora. I'm not a big fan of virtualization to be honest, but after
messing with it a bit I found that the following Unix shell commands
sort-of worked:
sudo dnf install @virtualization
qemu-kvm -net user,hostfwd=tcp:127.0.0.1:2222-:22 -net nic -drive
file=debian-hurd-20160824.img,cache=writeback -m 1G
The latter command outputs the somewhat scary-looking:
WARNING: Image format was not specified for 'debian-hurd-20160824.img'
and probing guessed raw.
Automatically detecting the format is dangerous for raw
images, write operations on block 0 will be restricted.
Specify the 'raw' format explicitly to remove the restrictions.
and gives me a screen where I can log in as root and type the command
"password demo" to change the password, and then from another terminal
window I can run "ssh demo@localhost -p 2222" to login to GNU/Hurd, and
after creating .ssh/authorized_keys with my key, I can run "scp -P 2222
emacs.tar.gz demo@localhost:". (This "emacs.tar.gz" was created by
running "make dist" followed by "tar cf emacs.tar.gz emacs-26.0.50" on
my development machine, in the master branch.) Although all this is
obvious if you're a VM expert and like messing with VMs, it's not
written down in the instructions. (Plus, I hate having to type
Ctrl-Alt-G all the time while configuring the VM -- that's not
documented either.)
On GNU/Hurd I tried several ways to configure Emacs. None worked. I made
the most progess with this:
tar xf emacs.tar.gz
cd emacs-26.0.50
./configure --without-x --with-gnutls=no
This failed as follows:
checking for library containing tputs... no
configure: error: The required function 'tputs' was not found in any
library.
The following libraries were tried (in order):
libtinfo, libncurses, libterminfo, libtermcap, libcurses
Please try installing whichever of these libraries is most appropriate
for your system, together with its header files.
For example, a libncurses-dev(el) or similar package.
At this point I gave up. I don't know where to grab GNU/Hurd packages
from, and anyway this process is taking more of my time than I would
like to spend.
Perhaps you could build a GNU/Hurd image that already has all the
packages needed to develop programs like Emacs, and then send a complete
standalone recipe that will let someone easily reproduce the Emacs
problem even if they dislike messing with VMs.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-07 22:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-02 15:20 bug#24857: emacs24/25 FTBFS since a long time on GNU/Hurd Paul Eggert
2016-11-02 16:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-02 17:38 ` Svante Signell
2016-11-10 11:57 ` Svante Signell
2016-11-10 16:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-10 20:35 ` Svante Signell
2016-11-11 7:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-11 9:50 ` Svante Signell
2016-11-11 10:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-11 10:32 ` Svante Signell
2016-11-11 10:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-11 11:18 ` Svante Signell
2016-11-11 14:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-11 15:04 ` Svante Signell
2016-11-11 15:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-21 16:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-14 12:21 ` Paul Eggert
2017-09-02 13:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-02 14:10 ` Svante Signell
2017-09-02 14:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-02 14:43 ` Svante Signell
2017-09-02 15:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-02 18:11 ` Paul Eggert
2016-11-11 11:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-11 11:33 ` Svante Signell
2016-11-11 14:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-12 18:12 ` Paul Eggert
2016-11-04 20:17 ` bug#24857: Anybody needs help to set up a qemu VM for GNU/Hurd? Svante Signell
2016-11-29 21:14 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-12-01 14:52 ` bug#25081: " Svante Signell
2016-12-01 16:48 ` bug#24857: " Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-12-01 17:29 ` Svante Signell
2016-12-01 19:25 ` Glenn Morris
2016-12-01 22:09 ` Svante Signell
2016-12-07 22:36 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2016-12-07 23:00 ` Svante Signell
2016-12-08 0:45 ` bug#25081: " Paul Eggert
2016-12-08 9:12 ` bug#24857: " Svante Signell
2016-12-08 15:50 ` Paul Eggert
2016-12-07 23:00 ` bug#25081: " Svante Signell
2016-12-08 0:54 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-12-08 1:01 ` Paul Eggert
2016-12-08 1:15 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-12-08 1:05 ` Glenn Morris
2017-11-02 1:10 ` bug#24857: " Noam Postavsky
2017-11-02 17:49 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-01-06 23:20 ` Noam Postavsky
2016-12-08 17:01 ` bug#24857: Sorry, reopening this bug Svante Signell
2016-12-08 17:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-08 17:34 ` Svante Signell
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