I've always had the hope that we could somehow bootstrap some version of the gcc toolchain, get liberty up, and ease into it that way -- but not under APE! Try to find a way to do a native plan 9 version of gnu tools. The reason is simple: I have lots of interest in Plan 9, but the code bases for the apps all need GCC/G++. This is a huge barrier.
ftp.gnu.org has 1.42 as the earliest: # cc -g -o gccnew gcc.o version.o obstack.o alloca.o # gccnew -v gcc version 1.42 # *waves at uriel*
