On Thu, 20 Aug 2020, John Cowan wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 11:55 AM Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co> wrote:
>
>> Funny you mention ksh since I've been trying to kitbash ksh93 into being
>> able to compile with make instead of the funky build system it currently
>> uses, without a lot of luck.
>
> IIRC, Korn used make when developing ksh, but then shipped it with a
> /bin/sh script because it was more portable than make was in those days
> (and still is; there are tools that warn you to use gmake on BSD).  After
> all, a build process (unless it is interrupted) just needs to build, it
> doesn't need to keep track of what has already been built.
>
> That said, I have no idea what the state of the build process is now.

It's still a shell script.  Big huge shell script.

I was trying to simplify the build process because I'm trying to coax ksh
to build with a nonstandard cc/libc combination as part of an attempt to
make Linux more like "real" (read: commercial/historic) Unices.  They're
pretty compatible with gcc and glibc, but they're not gcc and glibc.

-uso.