As a followup, the xterm author maintains his own autoconf forks at
https://invisible-island.net/autoconf/. They don’t hang on my system like the
newer ones shipped by m4 and nano.
Also, I tried iffe and it works like a charm even on the V7 Bourne shell. The
feature tests are also much nicer to
The new ksh93 maintainer seems amenable to getting it working on every Unix
system, so that allays my earlier concerns. I still think it would be nice to
get some feedback from someone running NetBSD on whether the new shell is worse
or broken compared to the existing one. Perhaps we could maint
Since Lev fixed the errors in upstream for musl and upstreamed them, lets pull
that in so any potential merge to master also can safely build on musl (thus
the old changes from Lev we would throw away for old ksh would be replaced with
the new changes)l. I also threw in compiler warning fixes fo
