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] p9p mk issue 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:20:12 CST."
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From: Bakul Shah <bakul+plan9@bitblocks.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 14:48:12 -0800
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> 
> On Nov 20, 2007, at 3:44 PM, Pietro Gagliardi wrote:
> 
> >
> > On Nov 20, 2007, at 4:01 PM, Bakul Shah wrote:
> >
> >> Don't laugh but I am trying to use identical mkfiles on
> >> FreeBSD & plan9 for some programs and it seems this is
> >> impossible.
> >>
> > PS - In my version of hoc(1), which is pure ANSI C, I use a makefile  
> > for UNIX systems and an mkfile for Plan 9.
> 
> you should be able to do some sort of magic like:
> 
> <!cat $PLAN9/$objtype/mkfile.$SYSNAME

For now I just changed default MKSHELL to rc in src/cmd/mk.
What I was really arguing for was for simplifying MKSHELL
semantics or getting rid of it altogether since it only
exists in p9p mk.