Re: [9fans] building Alef language

2019-09-20 Thread Lucio De Re
I have a version for legacy Plan 9, lightly tested, that I have not looked at in ages. Happy to haul it out, but I see little value in it. Go may have idiosyncrasies, but it is much more suited to modern architectures. That said, had Go not surfaced, I would have much preferred Alef to many other

Re: [9fans] building Alef language

2019-09-20 Thread Sean Hinchee
As rodri states BurnZeZ has a copy of Alef he got building and kind of running under 9front/386. I kind of got the same thing at one point, but his is way better :) I know a snapshot of it is on mycroftiv's public grid around /n/griddisk/burnzez I don't know if he has a public

Re: [9fans] go under plan9 on the radpberry pi?

2019-09-20 Thread Bakul Shah
On Fri, 20 Sep 2019 09:53:07 +0100 Richard Miller <9f...@hamnavoe.com> wrote: > > > Another option worth exploring may > > be AOE as pi4 has a GbE (I haven't tried this yet). > > My go test builders are running with "local" fossil on a slice > of disk provided over AoE from an atom server. I

Re: [9fans] building Alef language

2019-09-20 Thread Rodrigo G . López
somebody please summon The BurnZeZ. -rodri On Fri, Sep 20, 2019, 10:46 PM Phil Kulin wrote: > I try to build Alef language > latest 9front iso > > %9fs 9pio > # I don't know why, but "tar x alef.tgz" command do nothing... > %tarfs /n/sources/extra/alef.tgz > %dircp /n/tapefs/sys /sys > % cd

[9fans] building Alef language

2019-09-20 Thread Phil Kulin
I try to build Alef language latest 9front iso %9fs 9pio # I don't know why, but "tar x alef.tgz" command do nothing... %tarfs /n/sources/extra/alef.tgz %dircp /n/tapefs/sys /sys % cd /sys/src/alef % mk all mk $objtype.all @{cd v; mk all } @{cd k; mk all } @{cd 8; mk all } @{cd lib; mk all } yacc

Re: [9fans] go under plan9 on the radpberry pi?

2019-09-20 Thread Steve Simon
hi, thanks richard, this is perfect i could not have asked for more. -Steve On 20 Sep 2019, at 9:43 am, Richard Miller <9f...@hamnavoe.com> wrote: >> Only lightly tested. > > In a sense, plan9/arm go is tested as well as any other platform: > under the go continuous development process,

Re: [9fans] go under plan9 on the radpberry pi?

2019-09-20 Thread Richard Miller
> If you mean the go compiler itself, hopefully the 2GB VM you > get on 9p/pi4 is enough to compile the compiler using a > cross-compiled bootstrap compiler. The compiler can compile itself natively on a pi2 or pi3. No need to activate swap space, unless you want to run the full test suite. >

Re: [9fans] go under plan9 on the radpberry pi?

2019-09-20 Thread Richard Miller
> Only lightly tested. In a sense, plan9/arm go is tested as well as any other platform: under the go continuous development process, every time a change is made to the compiler or runtime library, a complete test suite is run on builder machines for every supported architecture and operating

Re: [9fans] go under plan9 on the radpberry pi?

2019-09-20 Thread Bakul Shah
On Fri, 20 Sep 2019 06:29:31 +0100 Steve Simon wrote: > > my plan was to build and run/debug go on a raspberry pi 4 running plan9, not > to cross compile. If you mean go programs, the compile speed is tolerable provided you are not building very large programs. If you mean the go compiler