20 Aug
2020
20 Aug
'20
6:30 p.m.
On Thu, 20 Aug 2020, John Cowan wrote:
On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 11:55 AM Steve Nickolas
<usotsuki(a)buric.co> wrote:
It's still a shell script. Big huge shell script.
I was trying to simplify the build process because I'm trying to coax ksh
to build with a nonstandard cc/libc combination as part of an attempt to
make Linux more like "real" (read: commercial/historic) Unices. They're
pretty compatible with gcc and glibc, but they're not gcc and glibc.
-uso.
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.
That said, I have no idea what the state of the build process is now.