hi all, For those who have been following my 2.11BSD conversion, I was working on this in about 2005 and I might have posted about it then, and then nothing much happened while I did a university degree and so on, but recently I picked it up again. When I left it, I was partway through an ambitious conversion of the BSD build system to my own design (a file called "defs.mk" was included in all Makefiles apparently), and I threw this out because it was too much work upfront. The important build tools like "cc" were working, but I have since reviewed all changes and done things differently. The result is I can now build the C and kernel libraries and a kernel, and they work OK. This seems like a pretty good milestone so I'm releasing the code on bitbucket. See https://bitbucket.org/nick_d2/ for the list of my repositories, there is another one there called "uzi" which is a related project, but not document so I will write about it later, in the meantime anyone is welcome to view the source and changelogs of it. The 2.11BSD repository is at the following link: https://bitbucket.org/nick_d2/211bsd There is a detailed readme.txt in the root of repository which explains exactly how I approached the conversion and gives build instructions, caveats and so forth. To avoid duplication I won't post this in the list, but I suggest people read it as a post, since it's extremely interesting to see all the porting issues laid out together. See https://bitbucket.org/nick_d2/211bsd/src/27343e0e0b273c2df1de958db2ef5528cc… Happy browsing :) cheers, Nick