On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 7:25 PM, Edwin Beasant <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello there to all members! > As you may or may not be aware, after the Oracle acquisition of Sun, > many things changed, and I have ended up dealing extensively with ksh93 on > Solaris 11. > This used to be part of the more internal OS/network consolidation of code, > but recently i have moved it to the more third-party-friendly Userland code > consolidation. This code consolidation does things a little bit differently > to ON, with the result that it is much easier to work with and contribute to > the open-source community: > We have, over time, amassed a number of bug fixes for the 2011 release > of ast-base, some of which have been addressed in the 2012 release of the > ast-base package. I would like to be able to contribute any that you may > consider useful for integration into the codebase, if that is at all possible. > > I would also like to ask if it would be possible to get some pointers > for porting the ast-base package more properly to compile in 64 bit mode > under Solaris 11: Solaris 11 no longer boots a 32 bit kernel, and although it > can easily run the 32-bit version, a matching 64 bit version would be more > elegant and simpler to maintain long term - It would probably need a compiler > wrapper similar to the sgi platform to correctly compile with the Studio > compiler, and as a starter, I would love to know how I would set about > integrating one to the INIT package and the appropriate probes? > > We're interested in supporting ksh93 (primarily) and the ast-base > package in general, and indeed it is our default scripting shell under > Solaris 11 :-)
FYI, the correct package is ast-open, not ast-base, and just send your patches to [email protected] :) Irek _______________________________________________ ast-developers mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/ast-developers
