| From: | David Marshman |
| Date: | 20 Sep 2000 at 05:48:58 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: "make" - has anyone tried to port a newer version |
Dave Thiede wrote:
>What we will need to make porting easier is a fished port of
>bash. digulla has an initial port of bash 2.04-1. There is a comment
that
>the version that tao has will not even compile. Haven't tested this
>myself. As Mark noted make files quite often have shell commands in
>them. If a project is even slightly complex with several directories,
you
>will see a make file that will not work on Ami.
>
>Configure is another tool that REQUIRES bash (sh). There are several
tools
>that I have attempted to port but got bogged down in the details of
trying
>to find out what macros should be defined to get it to build correctly
on
>Ami. If configure would run, most of the work would be done.
>
>Anyone else interested in working on bash? I see no one has touched
the
>cvs archive in 7 weeks.
>
>dave
Yep, I've come across exactly the same problems when trying to compile
any non-trivial code from the Un*x/Linux world.
(In the port I'm about to upload to the ftp server, I became so fed up
with make and (the lack of bash) that I resorted to ".scr" files with
about 200 characters to a line - not a good approach at all.... :( -
and it's not even a complicated application. )
I'd definetly like to help with bash, but it's not really my area
expertise (not that I'm an expert at anything ;) - but I'm more of gfx
man myself... I'll have a go at anything though, so perhaps I'll start
having a look tomorrow night....
Aaron (the "Optimizer" :), are you still working on porting bash??
----
David
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