Hi Chase, I just tried to get the upgraded dtksh on the master-ksh93-upgrade branch to build with musl and it fails because bin/package is missing. If you are looking for a traditional SVR4 host to test, I have access to UnixWare.
Kind regards, Lev > On Jan 17, 2021, at 16:24, Chase via cdesktopenv-devel > <cdesktopenv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > Marcin you were right, it was ast malloc causing problems, I asked the leader > of ksh if there was any way to disable it and he told me to pass > -D_std_malloc. OpenBSD works perfectly now. Patch attached. I think we could > safely merge this branch now if there are no further objections... > > > Thank you for your time, > -Chase > > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ > On Sunday, January 17, 2021 2:48 PM, Marcin Cieslak <sa...@saper.info> wrote: > >> On Sun, 17 Jan 2021, Chase via cdesktopenv-devel wrote: >> >>> Not Working: >>> OpenBSD 6.7, segfaults whenever free() is called, but this does work with >>> the old version, so it is a regression, but OpenBSD couldn't even boot when >>> I compiled normal master, it hung at dthello >> >> Is this free() used in ksh, or libc free()? ksh93 brings in a library called >> libast which includes its own malloc >> implementation. You might need to compile ksh93 and libast with debug >> symbols to see what's going on there. >> >> One problem with libast's own malloc is that it uses ancient UNIX system >> call sbrk(2) which >> is slowly phased out by FreeBSD - that's the reason why we can't have ksh93 >> on the latest FreeBSD >> systems on aarch64 architecture - the system call is simply not there. >> >> Marcin > > <0001-dtksh-use-std-malloc-instead-of-ast-malloc.patch>_______________________________________________ > cdesktopenv-devel mailing list > cdesktopenv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cdesktopenv-devel _______________________________________________ cdesktopenv-devel mailing list cdesktopenv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cdesktopenv-devel
