Hello everyone,

I was looking at what graphical browsers are working with the hurd. I don't know
what are people's experience, but I have found that Dillo works reliably at what
it does, but it is a somewhat limited browser. I also tried Surf as a modern fully feature browser but with few bells ans whistles, and although it is able to load perhaps a first page, I found it crashes very often (might be Surf itself or something in lower down the stack).

I thought that Netsurf could be something that could work well. It is however failing to build on the hurd at the moment with the error:

src/time.c:25:10: fatal error: mach/clock.h: No such file or directory

https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=netsurf

Is this something easy to fix and patch?
If this is a result from a recent change, would there be other packages in the repository affected by the same problem?

Regards,
João

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João Pedro Malhado, le jeu. 22 avril 2021 13:10:04 +0200, a ecrit:

src/time.c:25:10: fatal error: mach/clock.h: No such file or directory

https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=netsurf

Is this something easy to fix and patch?

Yes, see https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/porting/guidelines.html#mach_clock

If this is a result from a recent change,

It's not.

would there be other packages in the repository affected by the same
problem?

Various packages wrongly think that mach == apple. The fix is usually
very simple.

Samuel

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