For those interested, pcre and re2c can be downloaded in binary (386) form from and in source form using hg from:
http://code.google.com/p/ports2plan9/ I got a number of other things in pipeline that I am interested in trying to put up there. Many of them will most likely not be interesting for most of the 9fans. On the other hand, I thought that some people might be interested in playing with it already anyway. If anyone is interested in pushing their ports to this repository they are more than welcome :)