From: Uriel <uriel99@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] A newbie question...
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 02:32:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5d375e920802061732y17992cch4bc588a1f62652ff@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7871fcf50802061111y1da6442dn3e42ca30288b704e@mail.gmail.com>
On Feb 6, 2008 8:11 PM, Joel C. Salomon <joelcsalomon@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 6, 2008 4:53 AM, Greg Comeau <comeau@panix.com> wrote:
> > And my question remains about gcc, either there is or there
> > isn't a port for Plan 9, but it seems clear to me that there
> > is one, so why do people keep saying not?
>
> There is a port of GCC, but it's not maintained much and reports vary
> on how stable it is. Also, 9c-produced 'object files' (basically
> compressed assembler code) are incompatible with GCC's object files,
> so any libraries that must be shared need to be recompiled.
I have yet to see that anyone (that is not dead) has ever got the GCC
port to work at all. (Fgb spent lots of time trying to get it to go,
but to no avail).
That it is (was?) linked from the website seems to add more confusion
than anything else.
uriel
P.S.: I want to make clear that I have a deep respect for dhog and his
work, it is quite impressive what he managed to do, specially having
in mind hideousness and painfulness of the task in question.
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2008-02-01 0:22 Michael Andronov
2008-02-01 0:25 ` erik quanstrom
2008-02-01 0:31 ` john
2008-02-01 0:30 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-02-04 0:59 ` Enrico Weigelt
2008-02-01 2:16 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-02-01 8:50 ` John Stalker
2008-02-01 17:15 ` Michael Andronov
2008-02-02 4:43 ` Michael Andronov
2008-02-02 4:57 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-02-02 13:02 ` Steve Simon
2008-02-04 10:21 ` Greg Comeau
2008-02-04 10:52 ` mattmobile
2008-02-04 11:12 ` Uriel
2008-02-04 11:47 ` Filipp Andronov
2008-02-04 15:42 ` Alf
2008-02-04 16:06 ` Filipp Andronov
2008-02-04 16:53 ` Steve Simon
2008-02-04 19:51 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-02-06 9:53 ` Greg Comeau
2008-02-06 19:11 ` Joel C. Salomon
2008-02-07 1:32 ` Uriel [this message]
2008-02-07 1:44 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-02-07 9:54 ` Greg Comeau
2008-02-06 9:45 ` Greg Comeau
2008-02-04 11:09 ` Uriel
2008-02-06 9:53 ` Greg Comeau
2008-02-04 14:32 ` [9fans] cross-compilation Charles Forsyth
2008-02-02 4:57 ` [9fans] A newbie question Pietro Gagliardi
2008-02-02 7:12 ` Filipp Andronov
2008-02-02 14:57 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-02-02 15:30 ` Filipp Andronov
2008-02-02 15:33 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-02-02 15:48 ` Filipp Andronov
2008-02-02 16:04 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-02-02 16:34 ` Filipp Andronov
2008-02-02 16:10 ` Charles Forsyth
2008-02-02 17:41 ` Uriel
2008-02-02 18:27 ` Martin Neubauer
2008-02-02 19:22 ` Juan M. Mendez
2008-02-02 19:42 ` Anthony Sorace
2008-02-02 20:10 ` erik quanstrom
2008-02-04 1:49 ` Enrico Weigelt
2008-02-02 22:25 ` ron minnich
2008-02-03 0:17 ` Robert William Fuller
2008-02-03 0:30 ` Rob Pike
2008-02-03 7:51 ` Eris Discordia
2008-02-03 8:44 ` Filipp Andronov
2008-02-03 9:30 ` lucio
2008-02-03 11:39 ` Filipp Andronov
2008-02-03 12:49 ` lucio
2008-02-03 13:25 ` Filipp Andronov
2008-02-03 14:10 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-02-04 2:05 ` Enrico Weigelt
2008-02-08 16:40 ` plan9
2008-02-03 14:07 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-02-03 0:33 ` Uriel
2008-02-03 1:42 ` erik quanstrom
2008-02-03 1:55 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-02-03 14:47 ` Paweł Lasek
2008-02-04 2:03 ` Enrico Weigelt
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2008-02-03 16:12 ` erik quanstrom
2008-02-04 2:57 ` Enrico Weigelt
2008-02-04 8:00 ` Filipp Andronov
2008-02-03 7:31 ` john
2008-02-03 15:01 ` dave.l
2008-02-03 15:10 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-02-02 21:16 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-02-02 22:01 ` Martin Neubauer
2008-02-04 1:02 ` Enrico Weigelt
2008-02-04 1:11 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-02-04 1:19 ` Enrico Weigelt
2008-02-04 1:29 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2008-02-05 2:23 ` David Arnold
2008-02-05 2:26 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-02-05 2:38 ` erik quanstrom
2008-02-05 2:51 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-02-05 3:00 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2008-02-06 9:53 ` Greg Comeau
2008-02-05 3:35 ` Federico G. Benavento
2008-02-05 2:31 ` erik quanstrom
2008-02-02 4:57 kokamoto
2008-02-04 12:12 gdiaz
2008-02-04 12:47 ` Filipp Andronov
2008-02-04 13:01 ` Uriel
2008-02-04 13:41 ` Eris Discordia
2008-02-04 13:59 ` Anant Narayanan
2008-02-04 14:36 ` Eris Discordia
2008-02-04 14:43 ` Martin Neubauer
2008-02-06 9:53 ` Greg Comeau
2008-02-06 10:02 ` erik quanstrom
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