Re: [9fans] plan9ports & macos 10.4 don't like each othere.

[Jeff Sickel <jas@corpus-callosum.com>]

On Nov 9, 2005, at 9:46 PM, Ronald G Minnich wrote:
>
> I don't know what the issue is, have not had time to look at it.

Russ posted a recent update to libthread and there are updates to bin/ 
9l and src/cmd/auxstats/mkfile that I hope make it in sometime in the  
near future (only needed for auxstats right now, and I respect Russ'  
busy schedule).

This actually leads to the question: since Apple's announced the x86  
support for Mac OS X, would it be beneficial to modify the mkfile's  
for the Darwin port to support the MachO multi-binary options by  
making 9c & 9l deal with the Darwin sources in a similar way as the  
Plan 9 compiler does?  Though MachO supports 'fat' binaries after the  
linker has handled them, I think it would be better to handle the  
object files in the same manner as the Plan 9 compiler and save them  
as .[v851ok0q2t6] only to let the linker squish them together if  
needed (still allowing for fully separate libraries and executables  
for each Darwin platform if needed).

Would anyone mind if I made the required changes to 9c, 9l and any  
supporting mkfiles?

jas