On Nov 14, 2007, at 3:16 PM, Bakul Shah wrote:
So then what is the big problem in porting gcc to plan9?
gcc was ported to Plan 9.
term% 9fs sources
term% cp /n/sources/extra/gcc/gnubin.tgz some_dir # this will take a
long time! :-)
term% cd some_dir
term% gunzip < gnubin.tgz | tar xv
term% gnubin/386/bin/gnu/gcc arguments
Everything said to you so far sums it up. Besides, many UNIX
programs can be compiled with pcc, and some of the libraries (such as
curses) are available from /n/sources/contrib). See /sys/doc/ape.ps.
Examples, you ask? pic(1) and troff(1), oh and GCC itself.
