From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Ruby port 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:19:46 PST."
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From: Bakul Shah <bakul+plan9@bitblocks.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:36:40 -0800
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> 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.