From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:00:39 -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: <20071114201649.A3CEE5B3E@mail.bitblocks.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20071114201649.A3CEE5B3E@mail.bitblocks.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: fb440f12-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 The problem is that you have to go with GNU for everything. You have to use their assembler, linker, object format, compiler and debugger. You need two compile every Plan9 library for ?c and gcc separately. On Nov 14, 2007 12:16 PM, Bakul Shah wrote: > > Making binutils to grok Plan9 aout is not big and is already been done. > > So then what is the big problem in porting gcc to plan9? > >