Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 08:51:02 -0600 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.com> To: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> Cc: Steve Price <steve@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ksh93 Message-ID: <20010227085102.A85973@hamlet.nectar.com> In-Reply-To: <20010227154226.A36915@kemoauc.mips.inka.de>; from naddy@mips.inka.de on Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 03:42:26PM %2B0100 References: <200102260514.f1Q5EHJ96328@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010226215311.A44937@spawn.nectar.com> <20010227154226.A36915@kemoauc.mips.inka.de>
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On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 03:42:26PM +0100, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> I was under the impression that it is our policy to build shells
> statically. Looking into ports/shells, I see that the actual
> picture is one of confusion.
Surprise :-)
> > While this might be useful for some environments, it has the
> > disadvantage that it nullifies the Korn shell's very useful dynamic
> > loading of `builtin' functions (see the man page's description of
> > `builtin').
>
> Does anybody use this?
I do. It makes ksh93 quite handy for test scaffolding.
> You probably can't built extension objects without libshell, which
> the port doesn't install. (It depends in turn on libast, and you
> end up installing much of the AST environment, which IMO is beyond
> the scope of a ksh port and should be left to a port of the ast-open
> package.)
I agree.
> > I think this should default to building a dynamic executable. A knob
> > for building a static version would be nice.
>
> Fine with me. I also picked up your suggestion for setting SHELL.
> (Is this required for the extraction step, too?)
I don't know -- I only tripped on it when building the package.
On the other hand, personally I think you should nuke the custom
do-extract target -- it is not needed. See the port I attached
with my previous message.
I also do not see the purpose of most of the patches you supplied with
this port -- could you explain them to me if you have a chance?
Only
patch-src_cmd_ksh93_Mamfile
patch-src_cmd_ksh93_sh_1
patch-src_lib_libast_features_limits_c
seem useful. Maybe the others are the result of problems you saw on
-CURRENT or 3.x?
Cheers,
--
Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / jvidrine@verio.net / nectar@FreeBSD.org
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