Answering my own silly question, on my fossil-based system, running the following command on the console as the bootes user seems to get the update process running:
replica/pull -v /dist/replica/network I'll wait for this to complete and then give building Go another shot. Thanks for answering my shot in the dark! Thanks, Sean On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 5:16 PM, Sean Caron <sca...@umich.edu> wrote: > Thanks, Skip. That would follow; this system is probably straight Fourth > Edition, certainly an old ISO... > > I've never been 100% clear on the process for running updates; can I bring > myself up to current from where I'm at now and not have to reload or build > a fresh system? It's a VM and I can snapshot so I'm willing to give > anything a try ... > > I'm looking at the directions in a (cached copy) of > http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Staying_up_to_date/index.html... > > Is that still valid? What's the canonical procedure these days for > updating a system? > > If that's roughly correct ... I'm running a single Plan 9 machine, > combined CPU and fileserver ... I run that command as the bootes user on > the system console? > > Thanks! > > Sean > > > On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 5:05 PM, Skip Tavakkolian < > skip.tavakkol...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> All the errors seem related to the old Rune size. I suspect you're >> running an old system and it's likely to not have nsec and tsemacquire >> syscalls either. >> >> If you believe the system is up-to-date, you can cross compile a simple >> Go program using 1.5 or later targeting GOOS=plan9 GOARCH=386 from a >> Linux/OSX or Windows box and see if it runs on your system. That might >> give you more info. >> >> >> >> On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 1:44 PM Sean Caron <sca...@umich.edu> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I've been getting interested in programming in Go recently and it's my >>> understanding that at some point in time, Plan 9 was a supported >>> environment in which one could bootstrap and use Go? >>> >>> I've tried a few different versions; 1.2.2, 1.4.2, 1.5.2, just following >>> the directions that I found on a blog somewhere, i.e: >>> >>> tar xf go 1.4.2.tar >>> cd go-go1.4.2/src >>> ./all.rc >>> >>> But it fails almost immediately trying to bootstrap Go: >>> >>> cpu% ./all.rc >>> # Building C bootstrap tool. >>> cmd/dist >>> >>> # Building compilers and Go bootstrap tool for host, plan9/386. >>> lib9 >>> cpp: /usr/scaron/go-go1.4.2/include/plan9/../../src/lib9/utf/utf.h:226 >>> /usr/scaron/go-go1.4.2/include/plan9/../utf.h:1 >>> /usr/scaron/go-go1.4.2/include/plan9/utf.h:5 >>> /usr/scaron/go-go1.4.2/include/plan9/../fmt.h:21 >>> /usr/scaron/go-go1.4.2/include/plan9/fmt.h:5 >>> /usr/scaron/go-go1.4.2/include/plan9/libc.h:6 >>> /usr/scaron/go-go1.4.2/src/lib9/flag.c:6 Unterminated string or char const >>> >>> I get a fair number of these errors for various header files, then some >>> more worrisome output: >>> >>> /usr/scaron/go-go1.4.2/include/plan9/../../src/lib9/utf/utf.h:19[/usr/scaron/go-go1.4.2/src/lib9/fmt/dorfmt.c:152] >>> external redeclaration of: Rune >>> TYPEDEF UINT >>> /usr/scaron/go-go1.4.2/include/plan9/../../src/lib9/utf/utf.h:19[/usr/scaron/go-go1.4.2/src/lib9/fmt/dorfmt.c:152] >>> TYPEDEF USHORT >>> /386/include/u.h:11[/usr/scaron/go-go1.4.2/src/lib9/fmt/dorfmt.c:21] >>> /usr/scaron/go-go1.4.2/include/plan9/../../src/lib9/utf/utf.h:19[/usr/scaron/go-go1.4.2/src/lib9/flag.c:153] >>> external redeclaration of: Rune >>> TYPEDEF UINT >>> /usr/scaron/go-go1.4.2/include/plan9/../../src/lib9/utf/utf.h:19[/usr/scaron/go-go1.4.2/src/lib9/flag.c:153] >>> TYPEDEF USHORT >>> /386/include/u.h:11[/usr/scaron/go-go1.4.2/src/lib9/flag.c:22] >>> cpp: /usr/scaron/go-go1.4.2/include/plan9/../../src/lib9/utf/utf.h:227 >>> /usr/scaron/go-go1.4.2/include/plan9/../utf.h:1 >>> /usr/scaron/go-go1.4.2/include/plan9/utf.h:5 >>> /usr/scaron/go-go1.4.2/include/plan9/libc.h:7 >>> /usr/scaron/go-go1.4.2/src/lib9/fmt/charstod.c:20 Unterminated string or >>> char const >>> go tool dist: FAILED: /bin/8c -FTVwp -DPLAN9 -D__STDC__=1 >>> -D__SIZE_TYPE__=ulong -I/usr/scaron/go-go1.4.2/include/plan9 >>> -I/usr/scaron/go-go1.4.2/include/plan9/386 -DPLAN9PORT -I >>> /usr/scaron/go-go1.4.2/src/lib9 -o $WORK/dorfmt.8 >>> /usr/scaron/go-go1.4.2/src/lib9/fmt/dorfmt.c: >>> '/usr/scaron/go-go1.4.2/pkg/obj/plan9_386/lib9.a' does not exist >>> go tool dist: FAILED: /bin/8c -FTVwp -DPLAN9 -D__STDC__=1 >>> -D__SIZE_TYPE__=ulong -I/usr/scaron/go-go1.4.2/include/plan9 >>> -I/usr/scaron/go-go1.4.2/include/plan9/386 -DPLAN9PORT -I >>> /usr/scaron/go-go1.4.2/src/lib9 -o $WORK/flag.8 >>> /usr/scaron/go-go1.4.2/src/lib9/flag.c: >>> '/usr/scaron/go-go1.4.2/pkg/obj/plan9_386/lib9.a' does not exist >>> cpp: /usr/scaron/go-go1.4.2/include/plan9/../../src/lib9/utf/utf.h:227 >>> /usr/scaron/go-go1.4.2/include/plan9/../utf.h:1 >>> /usr/scaron/go-go1.4.2/include/plan9/utf.h:5 >>> /usr/scaron/go-go1.4.2/include/plan9/libc.h:7 >>> /usr/scaron/go-go1.4.2/src/lib9/fmt/dofmt.c:20 Unterminated string or char >>> const >>> /usr/scaron/go-go1.4.2/include/plan9/../../src/lib9/utf/utf.h:19[/usr/scaron/go-go1.4.2/src/lib9/fmt/charstod.c:152] >>> external redeclaration of: Rune >>> TYPEDEF UINT >>> /usr/scaron/go-go1.4.2/include/plan9/../../src/lib9/utf/utf.h:19[/usr/scaron/go-go1.4.2/src/lib9/fmt/charstod.c:152] >>> TYPEDEF USHORT >>> /386/include/u.h:11[/usr/scaron/go-go1.4.2/src/lib9/fmt/charstod.c:21] >>> /usr/scaron/go-go1.4.2/include/plan9/../../src/lib9/utf/utf.h:19[/usr/scaron/go-go1.4.2/src/lib9/fmt/dofmt.c:152] >>> external redeclaration of: Rune >>> TYPEDEF UINT >>> /usr/scaron/go-go1.4.2/include/plan9/../../src/lib9/utf/utf.h:19[/usr/scaron/go-go1.4.2/src/lib9/fmt/dofmt.c:152] >>> TYPEDEF USHORT >>> /386/include/u.h:11[/usr/scaron/go-go1.4.2/src/lib9/fmt/dofmt.c:21] >>> go tool dist: FAILED: /bin/8c -FTVwp -DPLAN9 -D__STDC__=1 >>> -D__SIZE_TYPE__=ulong -I/usr/scaron/go-go1.4.2/include/plan9 >>> -I/usr/scaron/go-go1.4.2/include/plan9/386 -DPLAN9PORT -I >>> /usr/scaron/go-go1.4.2/src/lib9 -o $WORK/charstod.8 >>> /usr/scaron/go-go1.4.2/src/lib9/fmt/charstod.c: >>> '/usr/scaron/go-go1.4.2/pkg/obj/plan9_386/lib9.a' does not exist >>> go tool dist: FAILED: /bin/8c -FTVwp -DPLAN9 -D__STDC__=1 >>> -D__SIZE_TYPE__=ulong -I/usr/scaron/go-go1.4.2/include/plan9 >>> -I/usr/scaron/go-go1.4.2/include/plan9/386 -DPLAN9PORT -I >>> /usr/scaron/go-go1.4.2/src/lib9 -o $WORK/dofmt.8 >>> /usr/scaron/go-go1.4.2/src/lib9/fmt/dofmt.c: >>> '/usr/scaron/go-go1.4.2/pkg/obj/plan9_386/lib9.a' does not exist >>> >>> At that point the build fails and I drop back to the rc prompt. >>> >>> While the example I cite above is for version 1.4.2, I believe the >>> failure mode is pretty much the same for both earlier and later versions >>> that I've tried to build. >>> >>> Is my Plan 9 installation "too old"? I'm using pretty bog-standard >>> Fourth Edition on this particular instance; 9atom doesn't seem to get along >>> with VMware ESXi (at least, not last time I checked). >>> >>> Any help greatly appreciated! I'd love to be able to use Go within Plan >>> 9. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Sean >>> >>> >>> >
