On Sat, Mar 08, 2025 at 10:43:46AM -0600, Jacob Moody wrote:
> > On 3/8/25 03:03, tlaro...@kergis.com wrote:
> >
> > I will start from the subset isolated (due to the pace of Ron and
> > Paul, looong ago now; at least two weeks...), having the current
> > state as reference, but trying to get things working against 9legacy.
> > But using binds and explicit mkfile rules to reach the correct source
> > when there are same filenames between Nix and the host distribution.
>
> Sure, I wish you the best of luck with getting nix rebased on top of
> 9legacy. I will warn you however that you'll need more conceptual
> understanding
> of what the code is doing instead of just working based on filenames in order
> to
> undo the 10+ years of changes that 9front has done. Or maybe you start from
> old
> nix and bring in the parts of 9front that you'd need in order to get things
> running
> on the system you want.
This is what I plan to do: I will start from "original" Nix (but the
needle extracted from the hay stack, and reverting the very early
changes made by Paul about qsort etc.), and then will try to first make
it compile with 9legacy, fixing things having the obvious help of the
changes made by Ron and Paul (if the problems are similar, of course...),
before trying to "update" it with modifications done in the master
repository (Ron's git repository).
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