[cap-talk] Failed attempting to build ccs-xenv

[Luke A. Guest]

On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 15:28 -0500, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:

> Right now we do not support cross build from 64-bit platforms. There are
> (or were) some issues in the BigNum library. We had somebody working on
> those, but I haven't kept up and I do not know what the current status
> might be.

Oh well, looks like I won't be able to compile it then.

I did try ./configure and make world, neither work.

> 
> > The idea is to try to get a grasp on capabilities and how they work with
> > OSes. From my previous post, I want to build my own microkernel and have
> > been looking into capabilities.
> 
> Luke: building a microkernel is a huge amount of work. To do it right
> takes several years. Is there a reason not to collaborate on the Coyotos
> kernel that is already mostly running?  I don't want to discourage your
> interest for a moment, but we could use the help and you might have more
> fun.

1) I want to learn on my own at my own pace.
2) I want to use Ada rather than C for various reasons.
3) I'm not ready for a collaboration yet.

Luke.