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From: pjt@druhi.ATT.COM (Paul James Taysom)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: Re: ksh on mips
Summary: for ksh on mips, you need the -DBSD_4_2 options on expand.c
Message-ID: <4544@druhi.ATT.COM>
Date: 24 Aug 89 21:32:00 GMT
References: <2576@lll-lcc.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T, Denver, CO
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(Our mailer kept bouncing my attempts to reply to you so I'm posting)

In article <2576@lll-lcc.UUCP>, busby@lll-lcc.UUCP (Lee Busby) writes:
> I'm porting the ATT Toolchest Korn Shell (my tar file is dated 5 Sept 87)
> to our MIPS M/120 running 3.10.  It compiles just fine and seems to
> run ok, BUT parameter expansion (echo *) is all messed up.  Anyone
> else already succeeded in this task?

The MIPS supports only BSD fast file system so you must compile
expand.c with the -DSD_4_2 option.  You may also find
problems handling some signals under 4.0.  I had to add calls to
sigrelse in stdsigs() in fault.c.
Paul James Taysom
AT&T Bell Labs 
(303)457-1981