From: "Steve Simon" <steve@quintile.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] So, why Plan 9?
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 12:25:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <08554024a399410fd79178b95cdd7666@quintile.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <i9025v$n7d$1@news2.carnet.hr>
> Is there already an implemented.. POSIX compatibility layer, library, or
> something? Hopefully, something that is very, very thin??
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/ape.pdf
this will allow you to recompile nice clean ansi posix code.
compiling gnu code may require more work as much of it is
rather tied to gcc and glib.
getting configure to work (the importability system) is a pain but
Fede has a nice script which can do much of the work for you - see the
9fans archives http://9fans.net/archive
-Steve
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-12 11:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-11 9:05 Mark Carter
2010-10-11 10:23 ` Sergey Zhilkin
2010-10-11 11:07 ` Robert Raschke
2010-10-11 11:17 ` Robert Raschke
2010-10-11 11:53 ` Nick LaForge
2010-10-11 13:39 ` Bruce Ellis
2010-10-11 14:45 ` ron minnich
2010-10-11 15:01 ` Karljurgen Feuerherm
2010-10-12 8:33 ` Aleksandar Kuktin
2010-10-12 8:51 ` Max E
2010-10-12 14:47 ` David Leimbach
2010-10-12 11:25 ` Steve Simon [this message]
2010-10-12 12:24 ` Jacob Todd
2010-10-12 16:04 ` Aleksandar Kuktin
2010-10-11 18:43 ` Brian L. Stuart
2010-10-12 8:17 ` Anssi Porttikivi
2010-10-12 14:09 ` Mark Carter
2010-10-12 14:53 ` Steve Simon
2010-10-12 14:59 ` David Leimbach
2010-10-12 9:06 ` Max E
2010-10-12 9:29 ` yy
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