From: Bakul Shah <bakul+plan9@bitblocks.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Ruby port
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:36:40 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071114193640.1E4E25B3E@mail.bitblocks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:19:46 PST." <13426df10711141119s5433b14cx90615fd0c95404c4@mail.gmail.com>
> 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.
Wouldn't it be far easier to teach plan9 to grok ELF than to
change gcc in any major way or am I missing something very
large and obvious? Wouldn't be the first time.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-14 19:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-11 20:44 [9fans] " Christopher Nielsen
2007-11-11 20:54 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2007-11-12 5:28 ` ron minnich
2007-11-12 14:19 ` David Leimbach
2007-11-12 15:40 ` [9fans] " prem
2007-11-12 19:01 ` ron minnich
2007-11-12 19:39 ` Steve Simon
2007-11-12 21:39 ` Aki Nyrhinen
2007-11-12 22:39 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2007-11-12 23:21 ` Steve Simon
2007-11-12 23:32 ` William Josephson
2007-11-12 23:55 ` Charles Forsyth
2007-11-12 23:52 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2007-11-13 0:00 ` William K. Josephson
2007-11-13 0:53 ` Joel C. Salomon
2007-11-13 0:57 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2007-11-13 1:32 ` [9fans] Re: Ruby port ( off topic ) fernanbolando
2007-11-14 21:50 ` [9fans] Re: Ruby port y i y u s
2007-11-13 0:27 ` Aki Nyrhinen
2007-11-13 0:33 ` David Leimbach
2007-11-13 0:35 ` Aki Nyrhinen
2007-11-13 0:50 ` [9fans] Fortran Lyndon Nerenberg
2007-11-13 0:52 ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-13 1:08 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2007-11-13 1:08 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2007-11-13 1:48 ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-13 1:12 ` [9fans] Money, guns, and lawyers Lyndon Nerenberg
2007-11-13 1:41 ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-13 1:59 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2007-11-13 2:02 ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-14 16:55 ` [9fans] Fortran plan9
2007-11-14 17:05 ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-14 19:45 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2007-11-14 20:04 ` Uriel
2007-11-14 20:09 ` William K. Josephson
2007-11-13 0:59 ` [9fans] Re: Ruby port Lyndon Nerenberg
2007-11-13 1:23 ` Hagen Paul Pfeifer
2007-11-13 1:25 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2007-11-14 19:05 ` ron minnich
2007-11-14 19:14 ` Latchesar Ionkov
2007-11-14 19:19 ` ron minnich
2007-11-14 19:25 ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-14 19:53 ` Charles Forsyth
2007-11-14 20:43 ` Robert William Fuller
2007-11-14 21:15 ` Charles Forsyth
2007-11-14 21:22 ` ron minnich
2007-11-14 23:04 ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-15 23:12 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2007-11-14 19:36 ` Bakul Shah [this message]
2007-11-14 19:45 ` Latchesar Ionkov
2007-11-14 20:16 ` Bakul Shah
2007-11-14 21:00 ` Latchesar Ionkov
2007-11-14 21:12 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2007-11-14 23:12 ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-14 19:37 ` Federico G. Benavento
2007-11-18 3:32 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2007-11-18 23:28 ` Federico G. Benavento
2007-12-02 22:55 ` [9fans] " Kim Shrier
2007-12-02 23:12 ` Federico G. Benavento
2007-12-03 5:11 ` Charles Forsyth
2007-12-03 5:13 ` lucio
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