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Date: Wed,  7 Jun 2006 12:26:24 -0700
From: Roman Shaposhnick <rvs@sun.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] gcc on plan9
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On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 01:17:25PM -0600, Latchesar Ionkov wrote:
> We need support for C++ and Fortran. 

  Oh my! It'll be a brand new can worms to open :-(

> It will use GNU binutils.

  What about libc ? Surely you can't expect UNIX applications
  to be happy without libc or better yet glibc. Do you intend
  to port it as well ?

> What I am planning to do (and that's what we agreed on the Secret
> Plan 9 Secret Society Society meeting :) is just migrate dhogs changes 
> to the newest versions of the GNU utils.

  That is a doable thing. But I fail to see what it strives to
  accomplish on the application level, unless, of course, the other 
  "secret pact" was to bring all the GNU cruft (like glibc, libstdc++, 
  etc.) along the way.

  Please explain what's your next step, as far as application
  migration is concerned ?

Thanks,
Roman.

P.S. Sorry for being harsh, but I've just suffered a long porting
effort of the same thing. And let me tell you -- C++/g++ and glibc
ain't pretty beasts. I dread the day they appear anywhere around
Plan9.