[comp.sys.nsc.32k] ksh

bdale@col.hp.COM (Bdale Garbee) (06/14/91)

So, what *is* the story on ksh at 1.5h?  Anyone have it working, and care to
share a source tree?  I, as Karl, am not overly excited about joining the 
"to estdio or not" crowd, etc... 

I'd rather put more time in my current hardware project for the pc532.... :-)

Bdale

sverre@lars.Seri.GOV (Sverre Froyen) (06/14/91)

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>So, what *is* the story on ksh at 1.5h?  Anyone have it working, and care to
>share a source tree?  I, as Karl, am not overly excited about joining the 
>"to estdio or not" crowd, etc... 

I took a look at ksh when it was first suggested, realized I had to get
estdio, and dropped it when I ran into problems trying to get estdio up.
Not being very satisfied with sh, however, I got hold of bash and got
it running with the help of Jyrki's patches.

I have since upgraded to 1.5h under which estdio compiles without
much problem (I have already posted a set of patches to the list).
Being happy with bash, however, I have not bothered to look at ksh
again.

I am running vanilla 1.5h.  I use gcc 1.39 with Bruce's linker
and assembler (I am tempted to try gas and gld because it appears that
would make g++ easier to port).  I use estdio because it is a little
faster that the standard stdio library and because my new floating
point routines are a little more accurate than the ones in libflt.
Finally I found that gnu make is a must (and remarkably easy to port)
for getting the makefiles supplied with the gnu tools to work.

If there is interest I can post my patches to these programs.  Most
are based on Jyrki's patches but with small tweaks to make them
work on my "vanilla" system.

Sverre

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Sverre Froyen
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PS.  Is I have mentioned before, my version of bash 1.08 has a problem
with loosing stdout when the output of a loop is redirected.  If anyone
wants to help me resolve this, send me a note, and I will mail my current
set of patches.