On Jun 7, 2006, at 1:26 PM, Roman Shaposhnick wrote:
On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 01:17:25PM -0600, Latchesar Ionkov wrote:
We need support for C++ and Fortran.
Oh my! It'll be a brand new can worms to open :-(
It will use GNU binutils.
What about libc ? Surely you can't expect UNIX applications
to be happy without libc or better yet glibc. Do you intend
to port it as well ?
We will try to use APE.
What I am planning to do (and that's what we agreed on the Secret
Plan 9 Secret Society Society meeting :) is just migrate dhogs
changes
to the newest versions of the GNU utils.
That is a doable thing. But I fail to see what it strives to
accomplish on the application level, unless, of course, the other
"secret pact" was to bring all the GNU cruft (like glibc, libstdc++,
etc.) along the way.
We would like to convince some people that Plan9 (kernel) is a useful
alternative to Linux without asking them to rewrite all their
applications. Like it or not, most people won't consider spending man-
months in effort just to check if an alternative is better.
Especially if there is not much hype surrounding the alternative :)
Please explain what's your next step, as far as application
migration is concerned ?
As Ron mentioned the immediate objectives are running MPQC and some
HPC benchmarks.
Thanks,
Roman.
P.S. Sorry for being harsh, but I've just suffered a long porting
effort of the same thing. And let me tell you -- C++/g++ and glibc
ain't pretty beasts. I dread the day they appear anywhere around
Plan9.
The GNU apps won't be part of the standard Plan9 distribution, so you
can continue to ignore them :)
Lucho
