Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!umriscc!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!brtmac From: brtmac@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu (Brett McCoy) Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell Subject: Re: tcsh source without csh source license Message-ID: <1991Apr5.021741.25941@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu> Date: 5 Apr 91 02:17:41 GMT References: <1991Mar29.112634.1244@nestroy.wu-wien.ac.at> <1991Mar31.114804.13952@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu> <3471@litchi.bbn.com> Sender: news@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu (The News Guru) Organization: Kansas State University Lines: 34 In <3471@litchi.bbn.com> rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) writes: >tom@itc.univie.ac.at (Tom Kovar) writes: >> I remember some time ago I heard about tcsh source which did not require >> the csh source for compilation ... >In <1991Mar31.114804.13952@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu> tar@math.ksu.edu (Tim Ramsey) writes: >It's not a myth; I use it here. Grab the 4.3bsd-reno csh sources from >>wuarchive.wustl.edu (128.252.135.4) or wherever else they are ... >I'm not sure what Tim is using, but it isn't the "free'd" Reno >distribution. The csh directory in the source tree includes csh.1, >pathnames.h and doprnt.c -- hardly enough to build csh! >You cannot build tcsh without having csh sources. You currently >cannot get csh sources without having an BSD source license. You >cannot get a BSD source license without having an ATT source license. >It is possible that csh will show up in part of the free'd BSD >sources when 4.4 comes out. This will not be a full Unix release, >just stuff known to not have AT&T licensing restrictions. If you take what is in the csh directory in the 4.3-reno distribution, and apply the tcsh-reno patches to it, it will build. That is how the tcsh I am running on my SPARCStation-1 was built, as well as the tcsh running on a Sun 3/60, Solbourne 5/600, etc. Until you actually try it and fail, please don't tell us that we are running code which can't possibly exist. -- Brett McCoy Computing and Telecommunications Activities brtmac@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu Kansas State University Alcohol is a calibration reference device for finding an attitude parallel to the local horizon at ankle level.