> 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.