Re: [9front] frontbase

[Stanley Lieber <sl@stanleylieber.com>]

On February 18, 2024 3:43:11 PM EST, hiro <23hiro@gmail.com> wrote:
>i forgot that suckless base tools and suckless 9base tools are
>something distinct.
>the last suckless 9base commits (from https://git.suckless.org/9base/) were
>
>Date	Commit message	Author	Files	+	-
>2019-09-11 22:46	hoc: Don't nest calls to follow() when lexing ++/+=
>and --/-=	Evan Gates	1	+2	-2
>2017-08-06 07:30	replaced sbrk() uses with malloc()	Anselm R Garbe	3	+13	-12
>2017-06-07 15:58	ed: avoid name collision with libc's
>getline.	Christopher Brannon	1	+1	-0
>
>a lot more activity is happening in the original plan9port upstream:
>https://github.com/9fans/plan9port/commits/master/
>
>On 2/18/24, Stanley Lieber <sl@stanleylieber.com> wrote:
>> On February 18, 2024 3:35:52 PM EST, Stanley Lieber <sl@stanleylieber.com>
>> wrote:
>>>On February 18, 2024 3:29:13 PM EST, hiro <23hiro@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>and the sbase people aren't maintaining any version of this that would
>>>>work on bsd?
>>>>
>>>>On 2/18/24, Stanley Lieber <sl@stanleylieber.com> wrote:
>>>>> a bunch of years later, i've pushed minor changes to frontbase:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://code.9front.org/hg/frontbase
>>>>>
>>>>> - change default OBJTYPE to x86_64
>>>>> - suggest CC = egcc for openbsd (otherwise it won't build)
>>>>> - replace remaining mentions of "9base" with "frontbase"
>>>>>
>>>>> for those who forgot, this is our fork of the final mercurial
>>>>> commit of 9base. a few 9front tweaks and additions were made
>>>>> (circa 2016), but it hasn't been touched since then.
>>>>>
>>>>> the original intention was to have this track with 9front
>>>>> changes to the base tools.
>>>>>
>>>>> right now it doesn't build on openbsd with clang.
>>>>>
>>>>> patches welcome.
>>>>>
>>>>> sl
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>no clue, does that still exist?
>>>
>>>sl
>>>
>>
>> i forgot, sbase has nothing to do with plan 9 tools.
>>
>> sl
>>
>

yes. the point of frontbase was to track 9front changes.

sl