personal port of part of the plan9 ecosystem to unix makefiles

this fork contains just enough for building acme or sam and setting a custom font

mainly for educational purposes (and because building plan9port was too slow for me)

all code is taken from plan9port, please support them if you are interested

Building

./configure acme && make

or

./configure sam && make

or

./configure tools && make

both acme and sam need plan9tools to run properly (e.g. to set fonts)

Installing

the default location is /usr/local

sudo make install

you can use the DESTDIR and prefix variables to choose an install location, e.g. make DESTDIR=<destdir> prefix=<prefix> install

Uninstalling

sudo make uninstall

if you provided DESTDIR and/or prefix during installation, you have to provide the same values here as well

Fonts

the default fonts acme uses are not installed, but fontsrv is

so just use

fontsrv -m <mountpoint> &

to mount your fonts where you want them and then execute

acme -f <mountpoint>/<fontname>/<fontsize>/font

to run acme

Nix

A flake providing packages.acme and packages.sam is contained in the project root.

Both with install packages.plan9tools as a dependency alongside automatically.

You can, for example, run

nix shell github:butteronarchbtw/acme-linux#sam

and use the binaries as explained above.