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From: bobf@plan9.bell-labs.com
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Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 10:04:25 -0400
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Silly porting fun
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> >>What I'd like to see...  mk for Unix :)  Anyone here who has attempted to port
> >>it over (along with rc of course)?
>
> i should be making a portable version of mk available shortly from a Vita Nuova site.
> it's the version used to build Inferno on Unix and Windows.

i should point out that the version of mk released with inferno
accepts recipes in either rc or sh syntax, so it is not necessary
to port rc.

on windows, we use a stripped-down version of rc that sean quinlan
hacked.  it's not fully functional, but communicates with mk well
enough to do builds.