Re: [9fans] plan 9 software for unix

[Glenn McGuire <foo@bar.net>]

Cool!

I downloaded the RPMs to my Redhat 8 box, and the mk RPM did not work
for me  (I suspect the dependency on libregexp was looking for regexp,
and not regexp9, but have not had the time to check it out yet.)

I compiled the source in the tgz file, and it succeeded without warnings.

Incidentally, it appears that newer versions of rpm have seperated the
creation function to another executable named 'rpmbuild'.  I made the
following changes in my copy of the makefile:

RPMBLD=rpmbuild
RPMDIR=/usr/src/redhat

[...]

rpm:
         make tgz
         cp mk-$(VERSION).tgz $(RPMDIR)/SOURCES
         $(RPMBLD) -ba rpm.spec
         cp $(RPMDIR)/SRPMS/mk-$(VERSION)-1.src.rpm .
         cp $(RPMDIR)/RPMS/i586/mk-$(VERSION)-1.i586.rpm .


I don't have the rpm.spec, so the 'rpm' build target still isn't fully
functional yet. I'm happy enough that mk is working, so I'm setting this
aside, but I figured I had enough feedback to make worth sending out a note.
	-gm



Russ Cox wrote:
> http://pdos.lcs.mit.edu/~rsc/software
> has convenient packagings of libfmt,
> libbio, libregexp, and mk that should build
> on unix systems with minimal efforts.
> i wrote freebsd/386 and linux/386 make files
> and would welcome others.
>
> the libraries are intended to integrate well
> with the native unix c library, so that they
> can be used in unix programs (rather than
> just ports of plan 9 programs).
>
> they're all in tgz, rpm, and freebsd ports formats.
> enjoy.
>