Re: [9fans] Plan9 development

2010-11-15 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
On 15 Nov 2010, at 08:02, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > * Gary V. Vaughan wrote: >> People like to beat on GNU Libtool, and in some cases that criticism is >> not undeserved... but in my experience, many critics of the tool come >> from a perspective of building on

Re: [9fans] Plan9 development

2010-11-14 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
commercial UNIX releases (assuming you didn't code around all of those shortcomings in each of your projects that is). Plan 9 is far from alone in having limited C99 and POSIX API support. Cheers, -- Gary V. Vaughan (g...@gnu.org) PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [9fans] Plan9 development

2010-11-14 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
On 14 Nov 2010, at 16:10, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: > Hello, Hi Thierry, > On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 09:17:46AM +0700, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: >> [[resent from my subscribed email address after the mailing list rejected >> the original]] >> >> [...] >> AFAI

Re: [9fans] Plan9 development

2010-11-14 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
orts. it's portable across cpu type and > os without fanfare, or even much code. plan 9 is similar, but much > simpler, since it doesn't need to fend off the os. I have looked at length already, although upgrading to VMWare 4 last year killed my Plan 9 VMs, and I didn't yet have the time to try to get them running again yet. Cheers, -- Gary V. Vaughan (g...@gnu.org) PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [9fans] Plan9 development

2010-11-13 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
improve the design of GNU Libtool. I probably won't pay too much attention if you tell me that I should rewrite the entire GNU build system and expect several thousand packages to pay any attention to me. I only maintain GNU Libtool and GNU M4, so my scope, and hacking time, is much

Re: [9fans] three sets of windows

2010-04-28 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
table way of mousechording with an all-in-one trackpad/button :( Surely I'm not the only one that dislikes separate mice? Cheers, -- Gary V. Vaughan

Re: [9fans] ape/psh can't exec in 9vx

2008-09-24 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hi Andrey, On 24 Sep 2008, at 13:52, andrey mirtchovski wrote: On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 11:17 PM, Gary V. Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Was just starting to settle in to 9vx, but this is a real showstopper: term% ls -ld /bin/ape d-rwxr-xr-x Z 1 gary gary 578 Sep 23 11:28 /bin/ap

[9fans] ape/psh can't exec in 9vx

2008-09-23 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Was just starting to settle in to 9vx, but this is a real showstopper: term% ls -ld /bin/ape d-rwxr-xr-x Z 1 gary gary 578 Sep 23 11:28 /bin/ape term% ls -l /bin/ape/sh --rwxr-xr-x Z 1 gary gary 482209 Sep 23 11:28 /bin/ape/sh term% /bin/ape/uname -a Plan9 vx32 4 0 i386 term% ape/p

Re: [9fans] Running 9vx.OSX on full plan 9 distribution

2008-09-23 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hi Anthony, On 24 Sep 2008, at 07:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: // 9vx hangs at the upas/fs invocation in /usr/glenda/lib/profile. This is a known bug, although last i heard the cause was still a bit of a mystery. Locally, I run upas/fs -n in my termrc, and then open mailboxes I want explicitly

Re: [9fans] rio startup fails in VMWare Fusion 2.0.0

2008-09-23 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hi Frederico, Thanks for the response! On 24 Sep 2008, at 02:03, Federico G. Benavento wrote: On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Gary V. Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ...so I thought I'd upgrade to the latest and greatest Fusion release, but things are even worse. If I boot f

Re: [9fans] Running 9vx.OSX on full plan 9 distribution

2008-09-23 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
On 24 Sep 2008, at 08:27, Fazlul Shahriar wrote: On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 7:34 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: // 9vx hangs at the upas/fs invocation in /usr/glenda/lib/profile. This is a known bug, although last i heard the cause was still a bit of a mystery. Locally, I run upas/fs -n in my ter

Re: [9fans] Teleporting Mouse in VMWare Fusion 1.1.3

2008-09-23 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hi Andrey, Thanks for the response! On 24 Sep 2008, at 00:09, andrey mirtchovski wrote: On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Gary V. Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've been trying to install the plan9.iso into VMWare Fusion on my mac. I see from the list archives that other

[9fans] rio startup fails in VMWare Fusion 2.0.0

2008-09-23 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
...so I thought I'd upgrade to the latest and greatest Fusion release, but things are even worse. If I boot from the iso, and select option '2' for the livecd option and taking the defaults of ps2 mouse, 640x480x8 resolution and xga monitor, I get the following error messages: aux/vga:

[9fans] Teleporting Mouse in VMWare Fusion 1.1.3

2008-09-23 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
I've been trying to install the plan9.iso into VMWare Fusion on my mac. I see from the list archives that other people have been experiencing the odd mouse pointer teleportation issue I've been suffering. Does anyone know what is causing this, or how to fix it? I suspect the vmware driver

[9fans] Running 9vx.OSX on full plan 9 distribution

2008-09-23 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
I'm having several problems with 9vx, following the instructions here: http://9fans.net/archive/2008/07/118 If I boot with: $ ./9vx.OSX -u glenda 9vx hangs at the upas/fs invocation in /usr/glenda/lib/profile. If I try: $ replica/pull -v /dist/replica/network I get a 'unable to set ui