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Date: Tue,  1 Jun 2004 15:49:16 -0600
From: ron minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] GNU Make
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On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, Russ Cox wrote:

> > I am wondering if you couldn't build gcc 0.1 or whatever, and once that
> > was working, iterate up to later versions by building on the first
> > version. My memory from 0.1 was that it was pretty portable.
> 
> why bother?  gcc3 is already ported.

because the last word I had was that it was very painful for the person
who did the port, said person is (sadly) no longer with us, and the work
could not be repeated by others. The last item is the one of most concern. 

ron