ksh93u has been around for a while. Newest sources are from "2011-02-08" http://www2.research.att.com/~gsf/cgi-bin/download.cgi?action=list&name=ast-ksh
Just a few changes. I'm not sure if versionator can be used here, but instead of hardcoding $RELEASE: if [[ $PV =~ ([0-9]{4})([0-9]{2})([0-9]{2}) ]]; then printf -v RELEASE '%s-%s-%s' "${BASH_REMATCH[@]:1}" else die fi And for the license under src_install: dodoc lib/package/LICENSES/cpl The old file no longer exists.
I wasted an entire day on this stupid package in vain, in case someone wants to reuse the work done on the ebuild: % cat ksh-93.20110208.ebuild # Copyright 1999-2010 Gentoo Foundation # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 # $Header: $ EAPI="3" inherit flag-o-matic toolchain-funcs RELEASE="2011-02-08" DESCRIPTION="The Original Korn Shell, 1993 revision (ksh93u)" HOMEPAGE="http://www.kornshell.com/" SRC_URI="mirror://gentoo/INIT.${RELEASE}.tgz mirror://gentoo/ast-ksh.${RELEASE}.tgz" LICENSE="CPL-1.0" SLOT="0" KEYWORDS="~x86-interix ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~x64-macos ~x86-macos ~sparc-solaris ~sparc64-solaris ~x86-solaris" IUSE="" DEPEND="!app-shells/pdksh" RDEPEND="" S=${WORKDIR} src_unpack() { # the AT&T build tools look in here for packages. mkdir -p "${S}"/lib/package/tgz # move the packages into place. cp "${DISTDIR}"/ast-ksh.${RELEASE}.tgz "${S}"/lib/package/tgz/ || die # INIT provides the basic tools to start building. unpack INIT.${RELEASE}.tgz # `package read` will unpack any tarballs put in place. sh "${S}"/bin/package read || die } src_prepare() { # run through /bin/sh due to #294817 # don't prefer broken old ksh versions sed -i \ -e '1i#!/bin/sh' \ -e 's/for i in ksh sh bash/for i in bash sh ksh/' \ "${S}"/bin/package "${S}"/src/cmd/INIT/package.sh || die # use Prefix' config files sed -i \ -e "/\(e_defedit\|e_sysprofile\|e_suidprofile\|e_sysrc\|e_bash_sysrc\)/s:= \":= \"${EPREFIX}:" \ src/cmd/ksh93/data/msg.c || die } src_compile() { sh bin/package only make ast-ksh SHELL=${CONFIG_SHELL:-${BASH}} \ HOSTTYPE="$(uname),$(tc-getCC)" CCFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" LD="$(tc-getCC)" || die } src_install() { exeinto /bin doexe "${S}"/arch/$(uname),$(tc-getCC)/bin/ksh || die newman "${S}"/arch/$(uname),$(tc-getCC)/man/man1/sh.1 ksh.1 dohtml lib/package/ast-ksh.html }
Preferably the ebuild could do some extra setup similar to Bash. E.g.: a dosym to create the symlink for "rksh", and adjusting to the different way ksh handles user profiles. Really doing this properly would probably require reverse engineering and replicating the functionality of that nasty "${S}/bin/package" script. I just setup DIR_COLORS in ~/.kshrc for now: if whence -p dircolors >/dev/null ; then if [[ -f ~/.dir_colors ]] ; then eval ${ dircolors -b ~/.dir_colors;} elif [[ -f /etc/DIR_COLORS ]] ; then eval ${ dircolors -b /etc/DIR_COLORS;} fi fi Testing versions are hidden away over here: http://www2.research.att.com/sw/download/beta/
(In reply to comment #2) > I wasted an entire day on this stupid package in vain, in case someone wants to > reuse the work done on the ebuild: > Maybe we should treeclean this is nobody is willing to maintain this (or proxy-maintain it...)
The versions in the tree aren't broken or horribly outdated. I'd leave it if there are no serious pending bugs aside from lack of maintainer.
I'll see what I can do with this.
I bumped to the latest official version. Can you file a separate bug for any improvements you would like to see?
Thanks Mike, You're too quick, and inspired me to try finishing what I'd started shortly before noticing the commit land in RSS. Looks like You've already noticed the Eclipse license change. Will report if I can think of anything useful to add. It looks like the next release is nearing completion as well. If it would be helpful, I'd be happy to proxy maintain this. I follow the AST mailing lists and use this shell in my daily work about as extensively as Bash.
