On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 12:22:28PM -0700, David Morris wrote: > I downloaded plan9port from http://swtch.com/plan9port, > however it does not compile. Looks like I have to join yet > another mailing list if I want to get that fixed, but on the > off chance anyone here can help, this is the error I get: > > * Resetting /usr/local/plan9/config > * Running on Linux: checking for NPTL... > NPTL found. > * Building everything (be patient)... > >>> cd /usr/local/plan9/src/cmd; mk all > 9 yacc -d -s bc bc.y > fatal error:can't create , <nil>:1 > mk: 9 yacc -d ... : exit status=exit(1) > mk: for i in ... : exit status=exit(1)
On the off chance anyone is struggling with the same problem, Russ Cox and I tracked this down to a compiler bug in gcc. There is now a fix in place in the plan9port CVS archive. --David
