After installing gcc-3.4.0 and configuring it to use clib2
(with a severely kludged specs file), I have now tried to
compile every source file in the tcsh source distribution
as a quick way to determine the feasibility of porting it.
I am happy to write that with a few exception it seems the
tcsh source is _relatively_ portable. The main areas which seem
to need a bit of work are the following:
* termios
* missing signals
* resource limits
* multi-user support
* fork()/vfork()
Of these, only the missing signals and fork()/vfork() appears to
pose any significant problem and as a positive side-effect, we might
contribute further to the development of clib2 (just an idea).
The ixemul-compiled tcsh binary is extremely unstable on my machine
and crashes randomly, usually in less than 15 seconds. It does, however,
appear to handle csh scripts - which the older csh implementation did
not (it only handled a subset).
Unfortunately, this still does not indicate if it would be easier to
write our own intepreter or not.
-Peter aka. Archprogrammer, still investigating.
PS: If this is uninteresting, just tell me and I will stop
posting status updates here.
Reality is for people who cannot face ScienceFiction.
Only lefthanded people are in their right minds.
There was a message posted on the IBrowse mailing list that holds some
information that I think is usefull to this project:
message here:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ibrowse/message/12294
Basically saying that Stefan and Andrija have been working on AmiSSL3
for 68k and OS4 but that it required perl which in turn requires ixemul,
and that they have had to "sort it out" for OS4, whether this means that
perl has been ported (using ixemul) for OS4 or straight to OS4 I dont
know, but it does seem likely that Perl is available (or will be
shortly) for OS4, and perl is a requirement for OpenOffice.org. It would
be good if we can get confirmation of this (Rogue/Entilzha)?
Thanks
Mark
Hello,
I'd like us to discuss the usage of the CVS server next meeting.
Kind regards
--
Amon_Re
Christophe Ochal
Hoge Buizemont 168
9500 Geraardsbergen, Belgium
Mobile: 0032 (0)479/46 45 74
http://www.kefren.behttp://www.metalfest.be
Hello,
Olegil, could you check this? Belxjander was unable to subscribe to the ml.
His email is: belxjander_serechai at yahoo dot co dot nz
Kind regards
Hi all!
Can it be that we are 4 people registered on the contact list of the dev
site ? Are the others to shy to edit your contact page there ? Would be
good to know who's on the project from time to time...
--
Jürgen Schober
7900 E. Princess Drv. #1273
Scottsdale, AZ, 85255, USA
http://www.pointdesign.com
juergen.schober(a)pointdesign.com
cell: +1-602-373-7092
Hello,
For those of you still using classic, on http://www.kefren.be you can get
GCC 3.4 Updater for my GCC Installer script.
Kind regards
--
Amon_Re
Christophe Ochal
Hoge Buizemont 168
9500 Geraardsbergen, Belgium
Mobile: 0032 (0)479/46 45 74
http://www.kefren.behttp://www.metalfest.be
Just to let you know. OS4 native csh runs. Well, sort of. I didn't expect
the executeable to run because I have still things to do. But nonetheless,
I just started it...and, voila, it really runs. It crashes after a command
execution (simply stops after a GrimReaper/Ignore), but the command
executed properly ;)
To be honest, I would have expected a fatal crash, but it didn't. Cool.
--
Jürgen Schober
7900 E. Princess Drv. #1273
Scottsdale, AZ, 85255, USA
http://www.pointdesign.com
juergen.schober(a)pointdesign.com
cell: +1-602-373-7092
Hi!
Is there a replacement for stch_l available somewehere, which works with
gcc ?
Can someone give me some detalils, how stch_l works ? (a hex string to
dec, ok, but what
formats are supported? 0x... ?)
thx
Jürgen
--
Jürgen Schober
7900 E. Princess Drv. #1273
Scottsdale, AZ, 85255, USA
http://www.pointdesign.com
juergen.schober(a)pointdesign.com
cell: +1-602-373-7092
Hi guys,
I'm trying to upload an lha file to the project page (aspell for OS4 for
testing). It was sent as an attachment to the aspell project on dev.aoo but
it never appeared!
Is there something I'm doing wrong?
Cheers,
Paul Heams.
I thought it might be time for a little progress report again
so you all have something to read. :-)
After performing preliminary investigations of NAS and its
source-structure the prospects of porting it look relatively
good. The code itself seems modular enough that there will be
no undue problem with re-directing it to AHI.
Preliminary portability rating: 5/10
(where 1=almost unportable and 10=trivial to port)
Investigations will continue.
As for the quality of existing ports, I have not opted to begin
by reading up on Amiga development and attempting to get up to
speed with v50+ before writing test programs to ascertain the
usefulness of the existing ports.
Happy progress!
-Peter aka. Archprogrammer
Reality is for people who cannot face ScienceFiction.
Only lefthanded people are in their right minds.
