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From: John Floren <john@jfloren.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Can't "mk CONF=9pcdisk" --> gives error
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 09:59:15 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAL4LZyhADVbrwhAE2c4xmhwLhZyng8VhbWUkZNAepL17G_u9GA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <96703eac-fc2e-4bee-8c0f-a7c5a3ff03d8@googlegroups.com>

On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 7:25 AM, Kyle Laracey <kalaracey@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday, July 19, 2012 5:17:47 AM UTC-4, Charles Forsyth wrote:
>> 9pcdisk is the output file, not the configuration file. Also you need to quote the = because it is special to rc (assignment).
>> Try</div>
>>     mk &#39;CONF=pcdisk&#39;
>>
>>
>> On 19 July 2012 10:07,  <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:kalaracey@gmail.com" target="_blank">kalaracey@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:
>>
>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
>>
>> `mk CONF=9pcdisk`</blockquote></div>
>> </div>
>
> Oh 9pcdisk is the OUTPUT file! That's odd... I'm following the instructions for compiling in this (http://lsub.org/who/nemo/9.pdf)  guide to the plan 9 3ed source code, and on pg 24, it says to do exactly that, mk CONF=9pcdisk. I tried mk 'CONF=pcdisk' and it works. Thanks.
>

But as Federico mentioned, you might not want pcdisk--that's for
running with a kfs root, which isn't officially supported any more. If
you were looking at the 3e guide, that might explain it. These days,
for a terminal, you probably want pcf (pc + fossil).


john



  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-19 16:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-19  9:07 [9fans] Can't "mk CONF=9pcdisk" --> gives error "rc: #d/0: kalaracey
2012-07-19  9:16 ` Federico Benavento
2012-07-19 14:25   ` [9fans] Can't "mk CONF=9pcdisk" --> gives error Kyle Laracey
2012-07-19  9:17 ` [9fans] Can't "mk CONF=9pcdisk" --> gives error "rc: #d/0: Charles Forsyth
2012-07-19 14:25   ` [9fans] Can't "mk CONF=9pcdisk" --> gives error Kyle Laracey
2012-07-19 16:59     ` John Floren [this message]
     [not found]     ` <CAL4LZyhADVbrwhAE2c4xmhwLhZyng8VhbWUkZNAepL17G_u9GA@mail.gmail.c>
2012-07-19 17:21       ` erik quanstrom
2012-07-19 17:48         ` John Floren
2012-07-19  9:20 ` [9fans] Can't "mk CONF=9pcdisk" --> gives error "rc: #d/0: David du Colombier
2012-07-23  8:32 ` [9fans] Can't "mk CONF=9pcdisk" --> gives error Kyle Laracey
2012-07-23 11:14   ` hiro
2012-07-23 12:32     ` Matthew Veety
2012-07-23 12:29   ` mveety
2012-07-23 16:42   ` John Floren

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