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Date: Tue,  1 Jun 2004 17:03:06 -0500
From: Russ Cox <russcox@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] GNU Make
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> 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.

surely if it were time to repeat the work,
starting with gcc3 would be a lot less
painful than starting with gcc 0.1.