20 Aug
2020
20 Aug
'20
9:42 p.m.
On 8/20/20 12:08 PM, John Cowan wrote:
On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 11:55 AM Steve Nickolas <usotsuki(a)buric.co
<mailto:usotsuki@buric.co>> wrote:
Funny you mention ksh since I've been trying to kitbash ksh93 into being
able to compile with make instead of the funky build system it currently
uses, without a lot of luck.
IIRC, Korn used make when developing ksh, but then shipped it with a
/bin/sh script because it was more portable than make was in those days
(and still is; there are tools that warn you to use gmake on BSD). After
all, a build process (unless it is interrupted) just needs to build, it
doesn't need to keep track of what has already been built.
He might have started with make for ksh83 and 86, but switched to Fowler's
nmake and then shipped that /bin/sh script in ksh88 for people (everyone,
basically) who didn't have nmake.
That said, I have no idea what the state of the build
process is now.
Changing that was one of the controversial modifications made to ksh93 in
ksh-2020. It's pretty complex.
Here's a paper that describes part of it:
https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/library/proceedings/vhll/full_pa…
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