On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 11:56 PM, Thomas Mueller <mueller6...@twc.com>
wrote:
>
> Excerpt from Rugxulo:
>
> > > Well maybe it would also be nice to have some BASH, such
> > > as the DJGPP one - both shell and script language... :-)
>
> > Nah. Their Bash is ancient (2.05b), not well-supported by anyone
> > anymore. Most DJGPP stuff mandatorily has to be cross-compiled
> > anyways, for various reasons.
>
> I just checked in NetBSD pkgsrc and FreeBSD ports, bash is at v4.3.
>
> If DJGPP stuff has to be cross-compiled, what OS would it be
> cross-compilable from, and with what tools?
>
DJGPP cross-compiles from Windows XP [0] or Linux [1]. I don't believe
anyone has made a serious attempt on DOS 7/FreeDOS+doslfn. I've used the
Linux cross-compilers to build a working lz4 for dos [2].
[0] http://www.delorie.com/archives/browse.cgi?p=djgpp/2015/10/19/16:39:44
[1] https://github.com/andrewwutw/build-djgpp/releases
[2] https://github.com/Cyan4973/lz4/tree/master/contrib/djgpp
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