Re: [9fans] Standalone unix port of the original rc shell

[Russ Cox <russcox@gmail.com>]

> p9p is remarkable to me in that it builds on anything, without automake,
> configure, autoconfig, dev-wrappers, and that other horrible stuff. You
> just type make. What a concept!

Except that you spell make "./INSTALL", but yeah.

> Plus, if you only want one piece, build it all anyway -- it's fast!
> I don't see the problem.

It's not *that* fast.  Compared to a Linux kernel build, sure.
But when I'm doing regression tests to make sure that everything
still builds everywhere, I sure wish it was 10x faster.

Building everything isn't entirely realistic for some people.  If I want to
write some big program that uses libfmt for a small part, it's nice
that I can just ship the standalone libfmt instead of requiring
people to build the entire thing.  Building just libfmt is even faster.
And arguably there are a few more pieces that could stand 
on their own, though once you start dealing with 9P I think you
should just take the whole thing.

Russ