> Since I am building everything on Unix, and am using the Unix shell > (bash in my case), I had to rewrite much of the mkfile rules, > specifically ones that deal with loops, conditionals and substituting > outputs from commands. Because all those rules are simple, this was a > trivial task. I also needed to change sed programs embedded all over > the place to be understandable to my systems sed.
If you use plan9port's mk, you can define MKSHELL=rc in the mkfiles, instead of translating them to bash. In the same way, you can place $PLAN9/bin at the beginning of your PATH to use plan9port's sed instead of the Unix one. In my side, I also tried to compile the Plan 9 programs and libraries on Unix using Charles' toolchain. It was working pretty fine. The main issue I encountered was the lack of support for long Runes in his version. Thus, I simply copied the related code from Plan 9: http://www.9legacy.org/9legacy/patch/kencc-rune.diff -- David du Colombier
