Hi Scott,
On 13/01/2005, you wrote:
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- tcsh and csh ports-
a. are these both 68k ports, or buildable for PPC and AOS4? b. If either one is 'less complete' that the other, it's possible to have buildscripts work on one and not the other. it could be in our best interest to choose one or the other and make that the 'golden standard' for the actual build environment. Anyone?
I'm still reading the OOo site, and haven't downloaded anything to check. However, I expect that OOo will be like Kaffe, Ada or any other big OS project - it will depend heavily on automake, libtool and other tools that in turn depend on a Bourne-compatible shell. I've only used pdksh with GG on OS3.9, I was not able to compile bash on my system. Tools may have changed since 2003, but if we do not have sh or bash, we are in for a lot of script re-writing before we will be able to build on a target system (A1).
In order to make our port "just another" platform that can be added to the source distribution tree, we will have to port the tools eventually, rather that adapt the scripts to suit our existing tools.
If we go the route of cross-compiling first and building the native tools as required, we will have more time to port these tools.
cheers