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From: Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57@fastmail.fm>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] GNU/Linux/Plan 9 disto
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 20:08:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110712200806.07ff5a7d@lahti.ethans.dre.am> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5eeb67c747b34515a3a2c065ae853eed@hamnavoe.com>

On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 19:09:44 +0100
Richard Miller <9fans@hamnavoe.com> wrote:

> > On
> > plan9 of course I don't pull from sources over my mobile phone,
> > instead pull and compile on the CPU server.
>
> Compiling on a phone is no longer so far-fetched.  Compiling all
> of plan9port from scratch on a Nokia n900 takes about 1.5 hours.
> It seems to be less hassle just to install gcc on the n900 than to
> set up Nokia's weird cross-compiling environment on another host.

This is exactly what I found on my Zaurus a few years ago... and then I found that the available basesystems were broken for compilation and putting a sane basesystem together was impossible. Glibc was installed, and recompiling that was... well, I never succeeded despite trying very hard and having plenty of time to put into it. Deitlibc didn't even have an arm port when I first wanted one, and ucLibc again wanted to do everything in a confusing alternate environment. It wasn't exactly cross-compilation, it was an environment which ran in QEmu, but anything I built in that QEmu VM wouldn't run on the real hardware, despite static linking. Horrible mess. I never did get to use that Zaurus properly. Hm, I never finished getting p9p to compile, either. I submitted one small patch but it wasn't all that was needed and I lost interest in the Zaurus altogether about a year before p9p was fixed for arm/Linux.



      reply	other threads:[~2011-07-12 19:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-11 16:05 rbnsw-plan9
2011-07-11 16:41 ` Jens Staal
2011-07-11 16:59   ` Gorka Guardiola
2011-07-11 19:31     ` Charles Forsyth
2011-07-12  5:59       ` Pavel Zholkover
2011-07-12 15:13         ` [9fans] Plan 9 Go (Was: GNU/Linux/Plan 9 disto) Lucio De Re
2011-07-12 18:35           ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2011-07-13 18:31             ` Lucio De Re
2011-07-13 18:45               ` Lucio De Re
2011-07-14 18:59                 ` stephano zanzin
2011-07-14 20:21                   ` Lucio De Re
2011-07-14 20:35                     ` Iruatã Souza
2011-07-15  2:37                     ` Fazlul Shahriar
2011-07-22  4:40               ` Lucio De Re
2011-07-22 14:37                 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-07-27  2:55                   ` kokamoto
2011-07-12 18:44           ` Skip Tavakkolian
2011-07-12 12:35       ` [9fans] GNU/Linux/Plan 9 disto Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-07-12  5:50     ` Jens Staal
     [not found]   ` <CACm3i_j1dxqY=sfunozAXRY+uhO83BnTodfpWvNb+4rSNouC_g@mail.gmail.c>
2011-07-11 17:43     ` erik quanstrom
2011-07-11 19:29       ` Charles Forsyth
2011-08-21 16:20         ` Enrico Weigelt
2011-08-21 17:27           ` erik quanstrom
2011-08-21 16:16   ` Enrico Weigelt
2011-07-11 17:56 ` hiro
     [not found] ` <CAFSF3XO7ejhGBq5Zqj1oL7UnnPf7naTtwbG56hN4k1fz3koxBw@mail.gmail.c>
2011-07-11 18:12   ` erik quanstrom
2011-07-12  0:10     ` hiro
2011-07-12 13:35       ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-07-12 17:18         ` hiro
2011-07-12 18:09       ` Richard Miller
2011-07-12 19:08         ` Ethan Grammatikidis [this message]

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