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From: Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Ruby port
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:12:35 -0500
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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On Nov 14, 2007, at 3:16 PM, Bakul Shah wrote:
>>
> So then what is the big problem in porting gcc to plan9?

gcc was ported to Plan 9.

	term% 9fs sources
	term% cp /n/sources/extra/gcc/gnubin.tgz some_dir # this will take a  
long time! :-)
	term% cd some_dir
	term% gunzip < gnubin.tgz | tar xv
	term% gnubin/386/bin/gnu/gcc arguments

Everything said to you so far  sums it up. Besides, many UNIX  
programs can be compiled with pcc, and some of the libraries (such as  
curses) are available from /n/sources/contrib). See /sys/doc/ape.ps.  
Examples, you ask? pic(1) and troff(1), oh and GCC itself.