5 Mar
2025
5 Mar
'25
2:26 p.m.
On Wed, 5 Mar 2025 at 09:15, Chet Ramey via TUHS <tuhs(a)tuhs.org> wrote:
On 3/4/25 4:55 PM, Rob Gingell wrote:
support
I have bash-2.04 running on 4.1C BSD. I don't remember whether I used
gcc-1.42 or gcc-2.81 to build it, but it was one of the two. In my
experience 2.04 is the last version that will successfully build and run on
many very older systems, though I believe there are a few where I was not
able to get past 1.14. At least on 4.1C, I've successfully used 2.04 to
run all sorts of configure scripts and I don't remember ever having run
into significant issues.
-Henry
On 3/4/25 7:07 AM, Chet Ramey via TUHS wrote:
> We expected a lot less from the system and compiler in the bash-1.12
days;
that
helped here.
How would those expectations differ from what V7 provided, as PAUNIX's
ambitions only went that far (not that they couldn't be expanded but...)
The thing is the Harrenstein C must've gotten more complete runtime to run 1.12 and seems like that'd exceed V7
and make PAUNIX even more
futile.
This would have been 1991-1992, so we were working on mostly 4.3 BSD (me)
and SunOS (Brian). We didn't expect more than K&R from the compiler, even
though we were primarily using gcc. It was before autoconf, so we rolled
our own version to create a `sysdefs.h', and had code to choose between
POSIX, USG, and BSD versions of functions. I don't think it would have
compiled on anything older than possibly 4.2 BSD, and probably not that,
so I think your speculation about the post-V7 runtime support is on the
mark.