> Put it another way. There are THOUSANDS of tools that you can't even
> attempt to compile if you can't run configure. You can't run configure
> w/out bash. You can't build bash unless you have the gnu toolchain.
> 
> It's a knot.
> 
> And the only way out that I can see is gcc.

Wouldn't it be far easier to teach plan9 to grok ELF than to
change gcc in any major way or am I missing something very
large and obvious?  Wouldn't be the first time.

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