OpenAmiga (613/959)

From:simond
Date:24 Aug 2000 at 09:59:27
Subject:Re: SV: AMIOPEN: "sh" for Ami

On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 10:12:34AM +0200, Jonas Gustavsson wrote:
> > Or is that one of those commands which have he fork()-thing problem which
> > you guys are working on? I am asking becos yesterday I downloaded mSQL and
> > thought: "Lemme see if this compile is possible". When I tried to run the
> > "configure" script it complained about not finding "sh" ;-(.
> >
> > Does anyone here have "sh" or have an idea on what other possibilitys there
> > are to get mSQL to compile?
> >
> That would be a shell(kinda like csh, ksh, zsh or bash), there is a port in the works
> at the ftp.amiga.com site but I�ve not had the time to look at it.

Actually there're two ports in the works at the moment, Aaron is working on
bash AFAIR and I've sort of been working on pdksh, I'm not sure how bash is
coming along but pdksh is basically missing fork and some subtle bug which
I've not managed to track down properly yet. It does run and produce a
prompt though :)



Simon Dick simond@irrelevant.org
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