Xref: utzoo comp.unix.questions:6952 comp.unix.wizards:8374 Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!ukc!stl!stc!idec!alice!fox From: fox@alice.marlow.reuters.co.uk (Paul Fox) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: KSH portability Message-ID: <341@alice.marlow.reuters.co.uk> Date: 9 May 88 17:15:10 GMT References: <295@cmtl01.UUCP> <12142@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <631@vsi.UUCP> <4063@mtgzz.UUCP> Reply-To: fox@alice.UUCP (Paul Fox) Organization: Reuters Ltd PLC, Marlow, Bucks, England Lines: 28 In article <4063@mtgzz.UUCP> avr@mtgzz.UUCP (XMRP50000[jcm]-a.v.reed) writes: >In article <631@vsi.UUCP>, friedl@vsi.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl) writes: >> >> Note that porting ksh is not at all a task for the novice; it is >> not (to put it politely) "maximally portable". > >Either you have had an experience you ought to tell us more about, or >you owe Dave Korn a public apology. > > Adam Reed (mtgzz!avr) Well, I managed to get it running on Xenix/386 very easily. Xenix/286 was a different kettle of fish. In fact I couldnt spare the time to do the work. I was pretty much appalled that the korn-shell would not work. It core dumps on start-up, and I strongly suspect that there is some dependancy in there expecting pointers and int's to be the same size. Could have been due to the malloc routines. Anyway, I do not expect these sorts of problems to be present in such a widely used and distributed piece of software. The shell-script/makefile is an ab*rtion if ever I saw one. Thumbs down for this one, I'm afraid. ===================== // o All opinions are my own. (O) ( ) The powers that be ... / \_____( ) o \ | /\____\__/ _/_/ _/_/ UUCP: fox@alice.marlow.reuters.co.uk