From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <13426df10711141119s5433b14cx90615fd0c95404c4@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:19:46 -0800 From: "ron minnich" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Ruby port In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <13426df10711121101p7f1677a2qcd4dc4f18222117d@mail.gmail.com> <13426df10711141105h6a65476fnc1f995d6f80792b1@mail.gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: fa779a9a-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Put it another way. There are THOUSANDS of tools that you can't even attempt to compile if you can't run configure. You can't run configure w/out bash. You can't build bash unless you have the gnu toolchain. It's a knot. And the only way out that I can see is gcc. ron