Re: [9fans] [APExp] which non-9front Plan9 variants are active? (for portability testing)

2024-09-17 Thread arnold
Although Plan 9 has some version of BWK's awk on it, I'd be curious if you can get gawk running in your extended APE. Thanks, Arnold -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T399a5d787978799e-M19098a01e7d0a7fcf5901576 Delivery op

[9fans] [APExp] which non-9front Plan9 variants are active? (for portability testing)

2024-09-17 Thread Jens Staal
Dear all, I am building a "portable APE" (APExp) with several 3rd party utilities and libraries included, and several experimental patches. the first release: https://github.com/staalmannen/APExp/releases/tag/v0.1 builds reliably on amd64 9front in a clean VM I would like to test the other Plan9

Re: [9fans] [APExp] which non-9front Plan9 variants are active? (for portability testing)

2024-09-17 Thread Steve Simon
personally i would avoid having curses (on plan9), and all that depends on it - but perhaps i am too dogmatic. re cfront this really is a relic, i never even managed to get vlong support into it (which in needed for “modern” plan9. there was a commercial c++ compiler for plan9 at one point, b

Re: [9fans] [APExp] which non-9front Plan9 variants are active? (for portability testing)

2024-09-17 Thread Jens Staal
On Tue, Sep 17, 2024 at 10:41:32PM GMT, Steve Simon wrote: > > personally i would avoid having curses (on plan9), and all that depends on it > - but perhaps i am too dogmatic. > Thanks for the feedback. On this point we have to agree to disagree. Curses is included because it is a very common de

Re: [9fans] [APExp] which non-9front Plan9 variants are active? (for portability testing)

2024-09-17 Thread Jens Staal
Yes in fact in the 0.1 release, I am using gawk 4.0.0 (an old port) as default awk. Current "main" branch is broken because I am in the middle of an upgrade to 5.3.0 (I have gotten all the components to compile, but there are some missing components during linking that I need to figure out). I am

Re: [9fans] [APExp] which non-9front Plan9 variants are active? (for portability testing)

2024-09-17 Thread arnold
Thanks for the info. FYI, just this morning I released gawk 5.3.1; it should be on ftp.gnu.org by now. If not, it will be soon. Thanks! Arnold Jens Staal wrote: > Yes in fact in the 0.1 release, I am using gawk 4.0.0 (an old port) as > default awk. > > Current "main" branch is broken because