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

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