Re: [9fans] GNU binutils: you can't make this shit up

[Eirik Johnson <falmarian@yahoo.com>]

It does seem odd to use the GNU extensions there,
especially as L4Ka people can't be too cozy with FSF
people, the whole L4Ka::Pistachio is released under
the BSD license.

Quinn

--- David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 1/15/06, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
> wrote:
> > l4 depends on all that gnu stuff?
> >
> > it's hard to imagine something that bills itself
> as the ultimate
> > microkernel depending on the ultimate macro
> environment.
> >
> > - erik
> >
> 
> Depends on the implementation... L4 Pistachio
> requires C++ and a
> particular version of gcc.  I've built it on my Mac
> OS X environment
> successfully and run piggybacked images since we had
> no multi-boot
> capable loaders for OpenFirmware at the time.
> 
> dave
> 
> > Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov> writes
> >
> > |
> > | Andy Newman wrote:
> > | >  But luckily there's only one array parameter
> > | > so the error is not that much of a challenge.
> > |
> > |
> > | um. you have not waded through the GNU ifdef
> hell, I'm guessing.
> > |
> > | I have an even better one, in which a struct is
> forward declared, and
> > | included, and so on .... and it's still not
> found as a defined struct.
> > |
> > | And, of course, you can't just cd into a
> binutils directory and try to
> > | make something; no sir, because about 30
> environment variables are
> > | missing at that point.
> > |
> > | whew. Sorry, this is trying to see if the L4
> microkernel can run a Plan
> > | 9 guest.
> > |
> > | ron
> >
> 


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