From: Aleksandar Kuktin <akuktin@gmail.com>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] So, why Plan 9?
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 16:04:52 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <i9209q$2j5$1@news2.carnet.hr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <i9025v$n7d$1@news2.carnet.hr>
On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 11:27:45 +0000, Steve Simon wrote:
>> Is there already an implemented.. POSIX compatibility layer, library,
>> or something? Hopefully, something that is very, very thin??
>
> http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/ape.pdf
>
> this will allow you to recompile nice clean ansi posix code. compiling
> gnu code may require more work as much of it is rather tied to gcc and
> glib.
>
> getting configure to work (the importability system) is a pain but Fede
> has a nice script which can do much of the work for you - see the 9fans
> archives http://9fans.net/archive
>
> -Steve
Thanks guys. Looking forward to trying it.
Ofcourse, since I'm short of free time right now (ah.. the age-old
problem), I'll be playing with all this a bit later.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-12 16:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-11 9:05 Mark Carter
2010-10-11 10:23 ` Sergey Zhilkin
2010-10-11 11:07 ` Robert Raschke
2010-10-11 11:17 ` Robert Raschke
2010-10-11 11:53 ` Nick LaForge
2010-10-11 13:39 ` Bruce Ellis
2010-10-11 14:45 ` ron minnich
2010-10-11 15:01 ` Karljurgen Feuerherm
2010-10-12 8:33 ` Aleksandar Kuktin
2010-10-12 8:51 ` Max E
2010-10-12 14:47 ` David Leimbach
2010-10-12 11:25 ` Steve Simon
2010-10-12 12:24 ` Jacob Todd
2010-10-12 16:04 ` Aleksandar Kuktin [this message]
2010-10-11 18:43 ` Brian L. Stuart
2010-10-12 8:17 ` Anssi Porttikivi
2010-10-12 14:09 ` Mark Carter
2010-10-12 14:53 ` Steve Simon
2010-10-12 14:59 ` David Leimbach
2010-10-12 9:06 ` Max E
2010-10-12 9:29 ` yy
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