On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 8:33 AM, David Crayford <[email protected]> wrote: > Wow, you're porting BASH! I'll be an alpha tester for that one. >
__ASSUMING__ that I succeed, it will go up on the CBTTape. I am doing it somewhat strangely. I got the source to IBM's port of BASH 2.03. I got the current source(s) to BASH from the GNU Savanah site onto my Linux desktop by doing a "git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/bash.git". I created my own, personal, branch in GNU's code which I called bash-4.2-zos. Using this as my base, I tried fitting the IBM 2.03 changes into 4.2. The then tar'd up this source and ftp'd it to a z/OS 2.1 system to which I have been granted access. I unwound it and converted it to IBM-1047 using pax. I have been making changes to address problems. As I make changes, I have ftp'd them back to my Linux system. Where I've been updating the git repository. This way, I will have a nice(?) git repository with the changes. Which means that I will have a very good log of what I did. Which, I hope, means that it will be easier to maintain the port when the FSF comes out with more releases. In reality, what I have done, to date, is currently on github under my acccount. Which I keep up to date with what is on my Linux box. I'm having a number of problems trying to get things so that they would "correctly". Unfortunately, when I find a mistake which requires updating config-bot.h, then I must start all over again from the ./configure . Oh well, it only costs me time. -- There is nothing more pleasant than traveling and meeting new people! Genghis Khan Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
