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The MirBSD Korn Shell R36 has been released yesterday; the Changelog contains more details as usual. Major changes: Digital UNIX (DEC OSF/1) V2.0 (MIPS) is now supported using the DEC C and ucode toolchain. (We could not run the testsuite ... [More] , though.) The ‘-Q’ option to Build.sh is gone without replacement. A new option can be enabled by adding -DMKSH_BINSHREDUCED to $CPPFLAGS, intended mostly for Debian. This option adds extra code to determine whether mksh(1) is called as sh or -sh and switch to “set -o posix” mode if so, disabling brace expansion and some security features, because legacy scripts, such as debconf, depend on such reduced functionality /bin/shs. Input lines beginning with an IFS character of IFS white space are no longer pushed into the history. Some other, less surprising, changes were also made to both Emacs and Vi command line editing modes. The arc4random.c contributed file is now stored with the RCS version number appended, and has been updated. This is a major update with improved stability and compatibility, and as such recommended in general. It has undergone more extensive testing than mksh R35; if there still be bugs, please report to us. Note that some sorts of behaviour are not considered bugs but expected, sometimes due to historical, sometimes compatibility reasons. Request for Assistance: We are still looking for an OpenBSD committer to import mksh into the ports tree. Furthermore, a Slackware GNU/Linux package is still missing, as well as a PC-BSD PBI, and Macports (former Darwinports) do not carry mksh either. My earlier Minix 3 problem persists, as do the Plan 9 and Syllable Desktop ones. [Less]

If you read the comp.os.minix newsgroup, please have a look at Message-Id <[email protected]> and help us porting mksh to Minix 3. (Yes I know I replied to a different thread, but this is just because Pine ... [More] did not want to let me post using a simple ‘C’ompose in the gabeln.) If you have an idea how I get the OSF/1 V2.0 cc(‌1) to correctly fail if it cannot resolve functions, or how we can fix Plan 9 or even Syllable Desktop (which is said to have fixed their signal handling in the kernel, however an actual user would have to test it), also feel free to contact me, you can probably help. [Less]

Hi everyone, mksh’s current development version should be tested on as many platforms as possible before a new release. This mostly means: $ CVS_RSH=ssh; export CVS_RSH $ cvs -d :ext:[email protected]:/cvs co -PA mksh $ cd mksh $ (sh ... [More] Build.sh -r && ./test.sh -v) 2>&1 | tee build.log Afterwards, please mail me (tg@) the build.log file, play around a little with mksh(1), see if it works. You can use a relative path to the source directory for repeated builds and also pass different compilers or flags as shown below, but please remember that passing CFLAGS or LIBS overrides the defaults, which you thusly should include: CC=gcc ksh93 ../mksh/Build.sh -r && ./test.sh -v CFLAGS="-q64 -O3 -qstrict" bash ../mksh/Build.sh -r && ./test.sh -v CFLAGS="-xO2 -m64" /usr/xpg4/bin/sh Build.sh -r && ./test.sh -v … You are, of course, invited to join the mailing list discussions regarding features, bugs, and behaviour, or even send in patches for missing items or architectures. I’d especially be happy if someone made Minix 3 work… pdksh runs there, mksh didn’t last time I tried (with gcc, but once that’s up ACK should be easy). Or Plan 9. If you’re on Ohloh, please add mksh to one of your stacks. [Less]

Six years ago, I started collecting patches against OpenBSD, a bunch of 4.4 elitist snobs since the 1980s (or so they say). Said patchkit should eventually become MirOS BSD and the MirPorts Framework, along with a couple of more or less well-known ... [More] and successful subprojects. Time to celebrate (TGIF)! IOW, I hacked a Debian package of mirmake, depending on latest mksh of course. It needs more upstream work to be useful and pretty, though. Let me plug here an animated GIF found somewhere in the net, which shows my opinion about Netscape/Mozilla/Fire…tapir quite well: And, even more unrelated, MirOS is (of course) continuously improving. We now use Fedora Core 4 libraries for the linuxulator, by suggestion of the MidnightBSD people, which should improve some things (it already has opened the door for Opera-linux plugins such as AcroRead-linux). (The best browser of all is still lynx(1) though.) [Less]

mksh – The iShell Try this: $ cvs -d [email protected]:/cvs co -PA mksh $ cd mksh $ cat >iBuild.sh <<-'EOF' DEV=/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer SDK=${DEV}/SDKs/iPhoneOS2.0.sdk CC="${DEV}/usr/bin/gcc-4.0 ... [More] -arch arm" CPPFLAGS="-I${SDK}/usr/include" CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -I${DEV}/usr/lib/gcc/arm-apple-darwin9/4.0.1/include" CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -F${SDK}/System/library/Frameworks" CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -F${SDK}/System/library/PrivateFrameworks" CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -F/System/library/Frameworks" LDFLAGS="-L${SDK}/usr/lib -L${DEV}/usr/lib/gcc/arm-apple-darwin9/4.0.1/lib" export CC CPPFLAGS LDFLAGS exec "$@" EOF $ mksh iBuild.sh mksh Build.sh -r $ file mksh Mach-O executable arm Of course, you need the iPhone 2.0 SDK on your Mac for this (and, presumably, an installed native mksh… otherwise just change the above instructions a little. We haven't tested it yet, but if gecko2@ can figure out how to run mobileterminal.app inside the emulator, he will… and possibly jailbreak his iPhone G3. Maybe this fact (availability of mksh) strengthens our point. In the meanwhile, gecko2@ has found the geocaches I placed. Update 18.07.2008 12:42 – we have a fat binary with five architectures (amd64 arm i386 powerpc ppc64) now. This is the iShell, indeed. [Less]

The MirBSD Korn Shell R35 has just been released; as per the Changelog this is a major update with some bugfixes, a lot of new features, and licence simplification (the advertising clause is gone). This version was not tested on AIX, BSD/OS ... [More] , Interix, IRIX, GNU/kFreeBSD, UWIN, the Intel compiler, but we expect no regressions on these platforms either. New supported platforms include dietlibc, LLVM. Platforms already working continue to be MirOS BSD, DragonFly BSD, FreeBSD, MidnightBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DEC ULTRIX, Mac OSX, HP Tru64, HP-UX, Solaris, Debian GNU/HURD, Cygwin, and various GNU/Linux systems; using gcc, pcc, SUNWcc, llvm-gcc, Compaq C, HP aCC, TenDRA; on a variety of hardware architectures. Online manual: HTML, PDF (ISO A4 paper, we don’t support Imperial units, as even the USA has converted to Metric) Update 18.07.2008 – mksh R35b is out, with major bug fixes, read the changelog. [Less]

Back home… there just ain’t such place as [::1]… (that’s localhost for all of you who don’t use BSD). Swinging on the bike and going to the ice dealer, the best of them all. It was kind of nice in Switzerland and it’ll be a hard decision for me ... [More] whether I’m going to move there or not. But after arriving at home, past the bike tour, I fell into sleep pretty soon. Travelling may be interesting, but it sure is tiring. Too bad I couldn’t find the two geocaches I looked for on the way back. I hacked some mksh on the train, until I had no power left in the batteries… the laptop literally just went off all suddenly… and continued that until now. We have some quite interesting new features in now, only sad point is that we still can’t hexdump NUL. I should definitively get my new server (tear) running now, for which the only dependency left ought to be the updated vnd(4) crypto stuff. This will take a while, as I’ll design a new on-disc format as well for improved security (think of keys, IVs, and so on). After that’s done I’ll give y’all a snapshot of MirOS-current, and update a lot of ports. Maybe I should work on bringing a regular sparc boot floppy into the tree as well – last time, I had to hand-craft one. But it will be lacking. There’s so much interesting stuff to do. Working on the Zaurus, ALIX, my SPARcstations (still no big monitor yet, so I couldn’t test Miod’s patch to make tvtwo(4/sparc) work yet), more FreeWRT devices… but I can’t neglect my dayjobs either. And I ought to learn to read and fix Perl *sigh* This sucks: I have network (internet) outages since last night. Sometimes, ppp(8) pppoe(8) still work when pppoe(4) doesn’t, but most of these times, both are unusable. The rest of the time, I sometimes have huge lags. My ISP (which unfortunately is a telco, but they aren’t completely clueless either) wanted to upgrade me from a 4 Mbit/s connection to a 6 Mbit/s connection as the old product doesn’t even exist any more (and I’ll save 10 €/month now), and the cable length (230m) isn’t an issue either. Testing today (as per the salesman I should have it May 1st, per the acknowledgement mail April 15th) I’ve got about 6 Mbit/s down, but my upstream speed is even reduced! WTF? Argh! Later on this night, my network connection is so flakey… [Less]

The MirBSD Korn Shell R33d has been released, mostly containing a security fix for the -T option, see the Changelog for details. A new MirMake version has been issued, to fix problems compiling C code with strange file extensions (.cpp as on ... [More] Microsoft® Windows®, and .C as BOINC uses). MirMake is a sort-of-portable version of the MirOS make(1) utility, a few header files and a libmirmake.a containing helper functions, and some supporting utilities: install(1) lndir(1) lorder(1) mkdep(1) readlink(1) tsort(1) The MirPorts Package Tools have been updated as well, as Lucas “laffer1” Holt, the MidnightBSD founder, has implemented ldconfig(8) -U too, and the use of this option by pkg_create(1) is now required for a lot of packages (since GNU libiconv, expat and libpng use their own fake-pkgview subdirectories. Hashes of our current distfiles: RMD160 (gzsigkey.cer) = 0a24e416b26e4753eee4cbfe8f1dc74f2486eb6e gzsig(1) distribution sign key RMD160 (fwcf-1.05b.tar.gz) = 355e1a46ef384b4ca26cccb7892a2f60eff2ffe2 for FreeWRT RMD160 (libnointl-20070726.tar.gz) = 3b97197a9bd8f693bebd8b528dd0d5c942e83e64 RMD160 (arc4random.c) = ad0ef189b7ffe80b9224b1f3886377847341bac5 RMD160 (joe-3.1jupp8.cpio.gz) = bbcc42ff82fd7a47feb51579864a487f31ca3a91 RMD160 (cksum-20080314.cgz) = 7566313c6db3182a99437eb6543b0da6abbed5bd RMD160 (paxmirabilis-20080314.cpio.gz) = 3966925c2d87838b0b55e2a0c715f027df3d965b RMD160 (ed-20060924.tar.gz) = 7d41e76e169caa73c8bbd043ad40b2b84339761a RMD160 (mirmake-20080411.cpio.gz) = e18bd36bc6c260332ab5df008f30b57a9849bc50 RMD160 (mksh-R33d.cpio.gz) = d810a705b01e146f9addd184c168798a22a36d38 RMD160 (mpczar-20061119.cgz) = cccf88ae27225c808f327ae7d56dbd9f2c053249 RMD160 (mirmtree-20050912.cpio.gz) = b4de12ddfd022538732b2c14dad60c2351b3011c RMD160 (mirnroff-20050912.cpio.gz) = 5063466a267a64b3f088c86a29e011b5ad712c4a for Interix ONLY RMD160 (sitetmac-20071023.tar.gz) = 107e5b64ecbf1214e19681f6fc0add6599fef25d temporary RMD160 (tmacmbsd-20071003.tar.gz) = 223c38916e489469703627b189f6fc16b9a36e27 temporary RMD160 (patch-20051110.cpio.gz) = ac32b2b0a1e7203256ec4bd255c7525053afb3ed for Interix RMD160 (pkgtools-20080411.cgz) = edf320a3798aa40c015e57c579310df754f28820 RMD160 (rdate-20070817.tar.gz) = 3501ae05c05d7c4f39ccb1c76dd51663c2b91e34 RMD160 (mirsort-20050912.cpio.gz) = 69a1a632c7343c09ca7bab39f6359667bb461c1c [Less]

The MirBSD Korn Shell R33b has just been released; as per the Changelog this is a minor update: portability fixes, support for dæmonising scripts, and manual page improvements. Online manual: HTML, PDF (ISO A4 paper, we don’t support Imperial ... [More] units, as even the USA has converted to Metric) UPDATE 02.04.2008: mksh R33c is out, with a bugfix and a new fully supported OS (ULTRIX 4.5). [Less]

mksh R33 has been released; read the ChangeLog for details. (Happy Birthday to everyone who has on this day.) The news in short and human-readable: Improved build system, once again; better error tracking; better portability with regards to ... [More] tools in /usr/bin at build and compilers Integrate all changes from OpenBSD ksh Integrate some changes from Debian: the “dot” command needs an argument; prevent namespace conflict between (built-in) aliases and (POSIX, not Korn) shell functions Add \uXXXX and \xXX escapes to the print builtin No longer check if we are called as “sh” for special handling Implement here strings: you can now replace print -r -- "$foo" | command with command <<<"$foo" – like ksh93, zsh; GNU bash behaves differently if and only if $foo is not quoted Implement string replacement ${var/pattern/string} Especially cool feature: replace x=$(print -r -- "$x" | sed -e 's/foo.*bar/baz/g') with x=${x//foo*bar/baz} ☺ Note: the distfile is not here yet, it’ll take a while to be released. Once it’s uploaded, the mksh homepage will be updated with appropriate information. UPDATE: It’s out now. [Less]