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Date: Sat,  8 Aug 2009 03:13:43 +0200
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From: Uriel <uriel99@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] 9base-3
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Always get p9p from hg, the tarballs have been partially broken for
ages and always have problems being untared in some environments, hg
is fast, painless, and makes it real easy to keep your installation up
to date.

uriel

On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 11:34 PM, Jason Catena<jason.catena@gmail.com> wrote=
:
> In recently-updated Cygwin (under WinXP), I got several dozen of these
> warning types ...
>
> In file included from regex/regcomp.c:2:
> ./regexp9.h:8: warning: weak declaration of '__p9l_autolib_regexp9'
> not supported
>
> ... before a compile error ...
>
> regex/regcomp.c: In function `regcomp1':
> regex/regcomp.c:487: error: invalid lvalue in unary `&'
> regex/regcomp.c:487: warning: implicit declaration of function `p9setjmp'
> make[1]: *** [regex/regcomp.o] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/d/Profiles/cjc040/opt/src/9base-3/l=
ib9'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
> ... with this code (line 487 is the if line).
>
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0if(setjmp(regkaboom))
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0goto out;
>
> This project is welcome, for two reasons significant to me. =C2=A0A minim=
al
> subset of the scripting tools means I can stop maintaining ksh scripts
> for machines that I don't want to install plan9port on (eg lab
> machines I won't use often.)
>
> For me, plan9port won't extract fully from its tar file (even if I
> extract and repackage it) on my brain-dead Windows+Cygwin laptop at
> work. =C2=A0The plan9port distribution works fine on a Linux machine, so =
I
> assume it's Cygwin (I do have enough disk space free). =C2=A0Maybe I shou=
ld
> try hg when I'm not behind the firewall, to download the whole
> distribution file-by-file.
>
> Jason Catena
>
>