On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 3:58 AM, David du Colombier <0in...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I searched and didn't find a canonical way to install mercurial and >> golang on plan9. Can someone point to me some instructions? I see from >> the golang build dashboard[1] that golang on plan9 is reasonably >> healthy. > > As Skip said, Python 2.7.6 and Mercurial 2.8.2 are available > as a binary package on http://www.9legacy.org/download.html. > > If you want to compile from sources, you will need to > get the APE changes from Jeff Sickel. If you are running > Plan 9 from Bell Labs, you can apply the following patch: > > http://www.9legacy.org/9legacy/patch/ape-jas.diff > > Here is an excerpt from my notes to compile Python on Plan 9:
[...] Hello David, That worked perfectly! Thanks. I compiled python from sources. I now have a working Python and Mercurial installation. Now, on to compiling Go. Thank you again, to everyone. -- Ramakrishnan