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- ksh was compiled quad-fat my mmalcolm crawford <m.crawford@dcs.shef.ac.uk>.
-
- The compilation reported a number of warnings of the form:
-
- For architecture m68k:
- In file included from /NextDeveloper/Headers/bsd/sys/time.h:106,
- from ksh_time.h:5,
- from c_sh.c:12:
- /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/time.h:26: warning: useless keyword or type name in empty declaration
- /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/time.h:26: warning: empty declaration
-
- It is assumed that these are not important!
-
- -------------------------
- From the original README:
-
-
- Last updated June '95 for pdksh-5.2.3.
-
- PD-ksh is a mostly complete AT&T ksh look-alike (see NOTES file for a list
- of things not supported). Work is currently underway to make it fully
- compatible with both POSIX and AT&T ksh (when the two don't conflict).
-
- Since pdksh is free and compiles and runs on most common unix systems, it
- is very useful in creating a consistent user interface across multiple
- machines. For example, in the CS dept. of MUN, pdksh is installed on a
- variety of machines including Suns, HPs, DecStations, pcs running Linux,
- etc., and is the login shell of ~4500 users.
-
- PDksh is currently being maintained by Michael Rendell (michael@cs.mun.ca),
- who took over from Simon J. Gerraty (sjg@zen.void.oz.au) at the later's
- suggestion. A short list of things that have been added since the last
- public pdksh release (4.9) are auto-configuration, arrays, $(( .. )),
- [[ .. ]], variable attributes, co-processes, many POSIXisms and many bug
- fixes. See the NEWS and ChangeLog files for other features added and bugs
- fixed.
-
- Note that pdksh is provided AS IS, with NO WARRANTY, either expressed or
- implied. Also note that although the bulk of the code in pdksh is in the
- public domain, some files are copyrighten (but freely distributable) and
- subject to certain conditions (eg, don't remove copyright, document any
- changes, etc.).
-
- If you would like to be notified via email of new releases as they become
- available, send mail to pdksh-request@cs.mun.ca with subject
- "send release notifications" (or "don't send release notifications" to stop
- them).
-
- Files of interest:
- NEWS short list of noticeable changes in various versions.
- CONTRIBUTORS short history of pdksh, people who contributed, etc.
- NOTES lists of known bugs in pdksh, at&t ksh, and posix.
- PROJECTS list of things that need to be done in pdksh.
- BUG-REPORTS list of recently reported bugs that have been fixed
- and all reported bugs that haven't been fixed.
- etc/* system profile and kshrc files used by Simon J. Gerraty.
- misc/README* readme files from previous versions.
- misc/Changes* changelog files from previous versions.
- os2/* files and info needed to compile ksh on os/2.
-
- Compiling/Installing:
- * edit options.h and define/undef the options therein.
- * run configure: this is a GNU autoconf configure script that will generate
- a Makefile and a config.h. Some of the useful options to configure are:
- --prefix=PATH indicates the directory tree under which the binary
- and man page are installed (ie, PATH/bin/ksh and
- PATH/man/man1/ksh.1).
- The default prefix is /usr/local.
- --exec-prefix=PATH overrides --prefix for machine dependent files
- (ie, the ksh binary)
- --verbose show what is being defined as script runs
- Note that you don't have to build in the source directory. To build
- in a separate directory, do something like:
- $ mkdir objs
- $ cd objs
- $ ../configure --verbose
- ....
- $ make
- See the file INSTALL for a complete description of configure and its
- options.
- * miscellaneous configuration notes:
- * If your make doesn't understand VPATH, you must compile in
- the source directory.
- * On DecStations, MIPS and SONY machines with older C compilers that
- can't handle "int * volatile x", you should use gcc or turn off
- optimization. The problem is configure defines volatile to nothing
- since the compiler can't handle it properly, but the compiler does
- optimizations that the volatile is meant to prevent. So. Use gcc.
- * On MIPS RISC/os 5.0 systems, sysv environment, <signal.h> is
- messed up - it defines sigset_t, but not any of the rest of
- the posix signals (the sigset_t typedef should be in the
- ifdef KERNEL section) - also doesn't have waitpid() or wait3().
- Things compile up ok in the svr4 environment, but it dumps core
- in __start (perhaps our system doesn't have the full svr4
- environ?). Try compiling in the bsd43 environ instead (still not
- perfect - see BUG-REPORTS file), using gcc - cc has problems with
- macro expansions in the argument of a macro (in this case, the ARGS
- macro).
- * run make: everything should compile and link without problems.
- * run make check: this fires up ksh on a script that checks for some
- known and some fixed bugs. The script prints the list of tests
- it expects to fail.
- * run make install: this installs ksh (in /usr/local/bin/ksh by default,
- or where ever you told configure to put things).
-
- The following is a list of machines that pdksh is reported to work on:
- -/PC Linux 1.x
- -/PC NetBSD 0.9a
- -/PC BSDI 1.1
- -/PC FreeBSD 2.0
- -/PC Interactive/Sunsoft 3.0.1 and 4.1 (note that problems have been
- reported with isc3.2 - see the BUG-REPORTS file)
- -/PC OS/2
- Commadore/Amiga NetBSD 1.0
- Dec/alpha OSF/1 v2.0 and v3.0
- Dec/pmax Ultrix 4.2
- Dec/vax Ultrix 2.2
- Dec/vax 4.3BSD+NFS (MtXinu)
- HP/pa HP-UX 9.01
- MIPS/m120 RISC/os 5.0 (bsd43 environ)
- Sun/sun4 SunOS 4.1.3
- Sun/sun4 Solaris 2.3
- Sun/sun386i SunOS 4.0.2
- Sun/sun3 SunOS 4.0.3
-
- Newer versions of pdksh may be available from ftp.cs.mun.ca:/pub/pdksh - you
- may want to check for one if you run into any problems, as the problem may
- already be fixed (you can get new release notifications automatically - see
- above).
-
- You can send bug reports, fixes, and enchancements to pdksh@cs.mun.ca (please
- don't assume I will see bug reports that are posted to some newsgroup or
- mailing list - I probably won't).
- If you are reporting a bug (with or without a fix), please include
- * the version of pdksh you are using (see version.c, or, if you are
- running pdksh, try echo $KSH_VERSION),
- * the machine, operating system and compiler you are using,
- * and a description of how to repeat the bug (a small shell
- script that demonstrates the bug is best).
- as well as the following, if relevant (if you aren't sure, include them)
- * what options you are using (both options.h options and set -o options)
- * the output of configure, with the verbose flag
- (eg, ./configure --verbose)
-
- Michael Rendell, michael@cs.mun.ca.
-