From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:45:12 -0800 From: "Latchesar Ionkov" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Ruby port In-Reply-To: <20071114193640.1E4E25B3E@mail.bitblocks.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <13426df10711141119s5433b14cx90615fd0c95404c4@mail.gmail.com> <20071114193640.1E4E25B3E@mail.bitblocks.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: fa8f83a8-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Making binutils to grok Plan9 aout is not big and is already been done. On Nov 14, 2007 11:36 AM, Bakul Shah wrote: > > > Put it another way. There are THOUSANDS of tools that you can't even > > attempt to compile if you can't run configure. You can't run configure > > w/out bash. You can't build bash unless you have the gnu toolchain. > > > > It's a knot. > > > > And the only way out that I can see is gcc. > > Wouldn't it be far easier to teach plan9 to grok ELF than to > change gcc in any major way or am I missing something very > large and obvious? Wouldn't be the first time. > >