[9fans] upstreaming a port of gawk -tips and opinions?
The author of gawk is interested in getting the changes needed to compile on Plan9 upstream. The port [1] has been slightly updated again and the Hg repository will be updated with the last changes as soon as I got time (main.c now vanilla). Since I most likely will have to backport my (rather limited) changes to a complete source distribution since my own repo has lots of un-needed stuff (m4, po directories etc) deleted which would show up on a diff, I wanted to take the opportunity to ask the list what the best organization of a Plan9 port would be when sent upstream. Should I make an effort to make the (mkmk-generated) mkfiles explicitly $objtype-independent or stay i386 since that is the only platform I have tested on? How would the addition of mkfiles and rc-files to the source distribution be as un-intrusive as possible? One possiblility might be to have a plan9 directory like in perl, where the mkfiles are located. Other ideas? [1] http://ports2plan9.googlecode.com/files/gawk-4.0.0b.pkg.tbz
Re: [9fans] upstreaming a port of gawk -tips and opinions?
by the way, there is a current port of brian's awk in contrib quanstro/awk. - erik
[9fans] Some things never change
While waiting for Linux to compile, I started poking at the 9fans archive and noticed something: The 13th message ever sent to 9fans (http://9fans.net/archive/1993/04/13) ended by asking about find. Plan 9: Not UNIX, since 1993 John
Re: [9fans] Some things never change
On Thu Feb 23 19:35:56 EST 2012, j...@jfloren.net wrote: While waiting for Linux to compile, I started poking at the 9fans archive and noticed something: The 13th message ever sent to 9fans (http://9fans.net/archive/1993/04/13) ended by asking about find. Plan 9: Not UNIX, since 1993 pfft. we've always had find. we've just called it du. - erik
Re: [9fans] Some things never change
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 3:43 PM, erik quanstrom quans...@labs.coraid.com wrote: pfft. we've always had find. we've just called it du. It's funny, since I learned how to do that via 9fans, I still do it that way on Linux. -Jack
