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From: andrey mirtchovski <andrey@lanl.gov>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: patch/list applied/ape-dumb-autohell-fixes
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 14:07:50 -0700
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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>
> I've always had the hope that we could somehow bootstrap some  
> version of the gcc toolchain, get liberty up, and ease into it that  
> way -- but not under APE! Try to find a way to do a native plan 9  
> version of gnu tools. The reason is simple: I have lots of interest  
> in Plan 9, but the code bases for the apps all need GCC/G++. This  
> is a huge barrier.
>

ftp.gnu.org has 1.42 as the earliest:

# cc -g   -o gccnew gcc.o version.o obstack.o alloca.o
# gccnew -v
gcc version 1.42
#

*waves at uriel*