Jon Trulson <j...@radscan.com> writes: > On 06/09/2018 05:40 PM, Chase via cdesktopenv-devel wrote:
>> Also, requiring ksh to build is a bit of a fault point for many >> users, especially the ones on BSDs, how difficult would it be to >> remove the requirement for ksh during the build process, using sh >> instead, and then when everything is build, use dtksh for >> installation? > > IIRC, dtksh/ksh actually requires ksh to build. I have no problem > with not requiring that ksh be available in order to build CDE. > > I tried it once many years ago and gave up. I think dtksh was the > main problem and it was going to be difficult/time consuming to > disentangle. Feel free to investigate though :) I don't know if dtksh is wanting some particular version of ksh, but there is a package in FreeBSD called shells/ksh93. It's not pdksh, but a real Korn shell. There are lots of warnings in the comments of its Makefile saying that to build it, no GCC options should be set at all, and since most users do have something in their /etc/make.conf of that sort, that might be why it gives people problems. I have successfully installed it just a minute ago to see if it builds ok on a FreeBSD 10.4 machine, and I even had CPUTYPE?=nocona set in /etc/make.conf and it built anyway. You might be able to just require shells/ksh93 as a dependency. -- + Brent A. Busby + "We've all heard that a million monkeys + Sr. UNIX Systems Admin + banging on a million typewriters will + University of Chicago + eventually reproduce the entire works of + James Franck Institute + Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, + Materials Research Ctr + we know this is not true." -Robert Wilensky
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