On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 09:09:46AM -0400, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: >Hi All, > >Given that pdksh has abandoned, I'm proposing to add mksh as a >replacement. I realize that Jari Aalto has proposed mksh in the past >(http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2007-09/msg00021.html), and that >it was subsequently shot down in favour of pdksh. But given that Igor >Peshansky has seemed to have moved on, and pdksh is now abandoned, I >would like to maintain mksh in it's place.
I think that's a fine idea. Too bad setup.exe (and upset for that matter) doesn't support a Obsoletes: tag. >Since mksh is distributed as a .cpio.gz archive, and at this point >cygport does not handle cpio archives, I've had to create my own build >script, so I would appreciate it if someone could give it the once >over. > >--- > >wget -x -nH --cut-dirs=3 \ >http://emergedesktop.org/cygwin/mksh/mksh-R39c-1.tar.bz2 \ >http://emergedesktop.org/cygwin/mksh/mksh-R39c-1-src.tar.bz2 \ >http://emergedesktop.org/cygwin/mksh/setup.hint Doesn't mksh uses ncurses for command line editing and recall? It isn't listed as a dependency. cgf