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Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 Go (Was: GNU/Linux/Plan 9 disto)
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On Fri, 22 Jul 2011 18:59:02 -0400
Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> wrote:

> go uses various features of bison to make
> writing the grammar easier and to be able
> to give good syntax error diagnostics.
>
> there are two viable choices here.
>
> 1. port bison.
> 2. run bison on another system,
> copy the go.tab.[ch] files over,
> and don't delete them.
>
> if #1 is too much, do #2, which is trivial.

All right, I won't waste my time then. I think someone else has already mentioned linuxemu as a possible 'other system' to run bison on. Linuxemu seems to come up a lot lately, I would like to hope it lasts as a suitable environment for this sort of thing, but knowing gnoonix (if you'll pardon the slur) I don't suppose it will.