Re: [9fans] Additional compilers under 9vx.OSX

[comeau@panix.com (Greg Comeau)]

In article <ec9ea766ee9a078a26ff902ed3e27e43@proxima.alt.za>,
Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za> wrote:
>>>the way to do this is
>>>	cd /sys/src; objtype=arm mk && mk clean
>>
>> Just getting to play with this... had to do some copying of some of
>> the files first among other setbacks...  ok,  plain mk asks what to make,
>> and so I tried 'mk all' which is saying 5c does not exist, but
>> that's one of the things I want it to build.
>
>There's a post by Geoff Collyer a while back, when the SheevaPlug was
>first introduced to Plan 9 that explains how to build the arm
>toolchain before trying to build the entire system.  Along these
>lines:
>
>	cd /sys/src/cmd
>	for (d in 5?) @{cd $d && mk install}
>
>I'm not going to try that now...

I am :)  Well, actually, given the /bin/ape/sh problem,
what I'm going to try to do is try to set up an alternative
9vx.OSX install from scratch, and apply the latter above instead
of the earlier system build (or whatever it is that the other was)
and see if that helps any, unless there is thoughts that is
an exercise in futility for one reason or another?
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