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1 This is sam (not including samterm) from the 4th edition of Plan 9, |
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2 with changes so that it can be compiled under unix. |
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3 (Tested on Solaris 7 and Debian 3.0r1.) |
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5 Some extra libraries are needed. First, fetch libutf-2.0 and libfmt-2.0 |
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7 http://pdos.lcs.mit.edu/~rsc/software/ |
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9 (Beware that in libfmt/fmt.c there is a line that says: |
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10 'u', __ifmt, /* in Plan 9, __flagfmt */ |
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11 Thus, sam will have to fmtinstall the other thing. Other ported programs |
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12 may have to do the same. The fmt library should probably print messages |
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13 about bad format characters to stderr, since no one seems to check the |
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14 return codes.) |
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16 Compile and install those two libraries. |
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17 Set PREFIX in the Makefile to match, then compile sam. |
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19 Your C compiler will emit many complaints of the form: |
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20 sam.c:496: warning: passing arg 1 of `bufread' from incompatible point… |
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22 This is because the Plan 9 compiler has a slightly different (better, |
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23 ala Oberon) type system than ISO C. Popular compilers generate the right |
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24 code, so in an act of civil disobediance I changed just enough to get |
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25 it to compile, but left the type errors in. Now the next C standard can |
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26 adopt this extension, because at least one important C program uses it! |
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28 -- Scott Schwartz, 4 July 2003 |
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