On Tue, 14 Feb 2006 20:15:10 +0100 Joerg Schilling wrote: > Glenn Fowler <gsf at research.att.com> wrote:
> > well as it pertains to the ast ksh source someone will have to > > care a whit if they expect to whittle out the inter-system > > portability infrastructure (which has evolved over almost 30 years) > > and still expect to get equivalent binaries with the whittled > > down build vs. the automatically configured build > Are you sure your system is as potable as it claims? yes -- see http://www.research.att.com/sw/download/arch.html for a list architectures we have access to that build without manual intervention -- there may be others but we don't keep track of that > AFAIK, it needs a ksh binary in order to be able to build ksh. no it doesn't it biases towards ksh if one is available but works with any Bourne descendant
