46593a89b7
I'm now taking another small step towards extricating this build
system from the long-dead AT&T AST universe.
This commit modifies/reduces the tool called proto. AT&T used proto
for two purposes:
1. To convert ANSI C code to a form compatible with ancient
(pre-ANSI) K&R C compilers using extremely complex macro
voodo. It was similarly capable of translating to C++.
Theoretically, this entire code base should compile on
anything from a 1980s K&R C compiler to a modern C++ compiler.
In practice, given the massive amount of bit rot we inherited,
I am 99.9% sure that this has been broken for many years.
2. To automagically insert license comments into source files
based on an extremely complicated license database system.
(In all-too-typical AT&T fashion, this second function of
proto is completely unrelated to the first.)
Function 2 has now been removed because, unlike the AT&T legal
department, I don't think it's worth going to unspeakably extreme
lengths to avoid maintaining license information in source code
files by hand.
In the process, proto.c was cleaned up to look halfway like actual
C code, but it's still processed code: most macros have been
expanded to their numeric value, all comments were stripped, etc.
So don't expect to understand this code. The actual source code is
in these two directories in the ast-open-history repo:
https://github.com/ksh93/ast-open-history/tree/master/src/cmd/proto
https://github.com/ksh93/ast-open-history/tree/master/src/lib/libpp
Meanwhile, nobody wants to compile ksh with a pre-ANSI K&R C
compiler in 2021 -- and there's no good reason to be compatible
with C++ because standard C compilers are universally available.
So, proto will go away when I manage to figure out how to pry it
loose from the innards of this build system.
src/lib/libast/port/astlicense.c:
- Removed. This is al the license handling code that was
incorporated in proto.c in stripped form. It was not used
anywhere else, and the environment where it was useful is gone.
src/cmd/INIT/proto.c:
- Cleanup to make this halfway maintainable: indentation, huge
blocks of empty lines, #line directives, etc.
- Delete all the code corresponding to astlicense.c. This was
actually easy as it was in a discrete block.
- proto(), pppopen(): Remove 'license'/'notice' and 'options'
arguments.
- main(): Remove processing of -l (license) and -o (license
options) flags.
**/Mamfile:
- Update all the proto invocations to remove the -l and -o flags.
bin/package, src/cmd/INIT/package.sh:
- Delete the 'copyright' command, which used the -l and -o
options to tell proto to extract copyright information from
*.lic/*.def files in lib/package.
COPYRIGHT:
- Added. This has the information from 'bin/package copyright', with
the copyright years corrected to plausible values as the AST code
used the current year (2021) for all of them. It adds ksh 93u+m
copyright and contributor information at the top as well.
(Yes, some of the lines in the old non-AT&T copyright notices
are clipped. This is the actual output of the 'bin/package
copyright' command as generated by 'proto' in the AST
distribution. For all that extreme complexity, they couldn't even
reproduce the notices correctly. But it's officially sanctioned
by AT&T in exactly this form, so there you have it.)
lib/package/**:
- Removed. All these files are now obsolete and redundant.
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KornShell 93u+m
This repository is used to develop bugfixes to the last stable release (93u+ 2012-08-01) of ksh93, formerly developed by AT&T Software Technology (AST). The sources in this repository were forked from the GitHub AST repository which is no longer under active development.
For user-visible fixes, see NEWS and click on commit messages for full details. For all fixes, see the commit log. To see what's left to fix, see the issue tracker.
Policy
- Fixing bugs is main focus of the 1.x series. Major feature development is for future versions (2.x and up).
- No major rewrites. No refactoring code that is not fully understood.
- No changes in documented behaviour, except if required for compliance with the POSIX shell language standard which David Korn intended for ksh to follow.
- No 100% bug compatibility. Broken and undocumented behaviour gets fixed.
- No bureaucracy, no formalities. Just fix it, or report it: create issues, send pull requests. Every interested party is invited to contribute.
- To help increase everyone's understanding of this code base, fixes and significant changes should be fully documented in commit messages.
- Code style varies somewhat in this historic code base.
Your changes should match the style of the code surrounding them.
Indent with tabs, assuming an 8-space tab width.
Opening braces are on a line of their own, at the same indentation level
as their corresponding closing brace.
Comments always use
/*...*/. - Good judgment may override this policy.
Why?
Between 2017 and 2020 there was an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to breathe new life into the KornShell by extensively refactoring the last unstable AST beta version (93v-). While that ksh2020 branch is now abandoned and still has many critical bugs, it also had a lot of bugs fixed. More importantly, the AST issue tracker now contains a lot of documentation on how to fix those bugs, which made it possible to backport many of them to the last stable release instead. This ksh 93u+m reboot now incorporates many of these bugfixes, plus patches from OpenSUSE, Red Hat, and Solaris, as well as many new fixes from the community (1, 2). Though there are many bugs left to fix, we are confident at this point that 93u+m is already the least buggy branch of ksh93 ever released.
Build
To build ksh with a custom configuration of features, edit
src/cmd/ksh93/SHOPT.sh.
Then cd to the top directory and run:
bin/package make
The compiled binaries are stored in the arch directory, in a subdirectory
that corresponds to your architecture. The command bin/package host type
outputs the name of this subdirectory.
If you have trouble or want to tune the binaries, you may pass additional
compiler and linker flags. It is usually best to export these as environment
variables before running bin/package as they could change the name of
the build subdirectory of the arch directory, so exporting them is a
convenient way to keep them consistent between build and test commands.
Note that this system uses CCFLAGS instead of the usual CFLAGS.
An example that makes Solaris Studio cc produce a 64-bit binary:
export CCFLAGS="-m64 -O" LDFLAGS="-m64"
bin/package make
Alternatively you can append these to the command, and they will only be used for that command. You can also specify an alternative shell in which to run the build scripts this way. For example:
bin/package make SHELL=/bin/bash CCFLAGS="-O2 -I/opt/local/include" LDFLAGS="-L/opt/local/lib"
For more information run
bin/package help
Many other commands in this repo self-document via the --help, --man and
--html options; those that do have no separate manual page.
Test
After compiling, you can run the regression tests. Start by reading the information printed by:
bin/shtests --man
Install
Automated installation is not supported yet. To install manually:
cp arch/$(bin/package host type)/bin/ksh /usr/local/bin/
cp src/cmd/ksh93/sh.1 /usr/local/share/man/man1/ksh.1
(adapting the destination directories as required).
What is ksh93?
The following is the official AT&T description from 1993 that came with the ast-open distribution. The text is original, but hyperlinks were added here.
KSH-93 is the most recent version of the KornShell Language described in "The KornShell Command and Programming Language," by Morris Bolsky and David Korn of AT&T Bell Laboratories, ISBN 0-13-182700-6. The KornShell is a shell programming language, which is upward compatible with "sh" (the Bourne Shell), and is intended to conform to the IEEE P1003.2/ISO 9945.2 Shell and Utilities standard. KSH-93 provides an enhanced programming environment in addition to the major command-entry features of the BSD shell "csh". With KSH-93, medium-sized programming tasks can be performed at shell-level without a significant loss in performance. In addition, "sh" scripts can be run on KSH-93 without modification.
The code should conform to the IEEE POSIX 1003.1 standard and to the proposed ANSI C standard so that it should be portable to all such systems. Like the previous version, KSH-88, it is designed to accept eight bit character sets transparently, thereby making it internationally compatible. It can support multi-byte characters sets with some characteristics of the character set given at run time.
KSH-93 provides the following features, many of which were also inherent in KSH-88:
- Enhanced Command Re-entry Capability: The KSH-93 history function records commands entered at any shell level and stores them, up to a user-specified limit, even after you log off. This allows you to re-enter long commands with a few keystrokes - even those commands you entered yesterday. The history file allows for eight bit characters in commands and supports essentially unlimited size histories.
- In-line Editing: In "sh", the only way to fix mistyped commands is to backspace or retype the line. KSH-93 allows you to edit a command line using a choice of EMACS-TC or "vi" functions. You can use the in-line editors to complete filenames as you type them. You may also use this editing feature when entering command lines from your history file. A user can capture keystrokes and rebind keys to customize the editing interface.
- Extended I/O Capabilities: KSH-93 provides several I/O capabilities not
available in "sh", including the ability to:
- specify a file descriptor for input and output
- start up and run co-processes
- produce a prompt at the terminal before a read
- easily format and interpret responses to a menu
- echo lines exactly as output without escape processing
- format output using printf formats.
- read and echo lines ending in "\".
- Improved performance: KSH-93 executes many scripts faster than the System V Bourne shell. A major reason for this is that many of the standard utilities are built-in. To reduce the time to initiate a command, KSH-93 allows commands to be added as built-ins at run time on systems that support dynamic loading such as System V Release 4.
- Arithmetic: KSH-93 allows you to do integer arithmetic in any base from two to sixty-four. You can also do double precision floating point arithmetic. Almost the complete set of C language operators are available with the same syntax and precedence. Arithmetic expressions can be used to as an argument expansion or as a separate command. In addition, there is an arithmetic for command that works like the for statement in C.
- Arrays: KSH-93 supports both indexed and associative arrays. The subscript for an indexed array is an arithmetic expression, whereas, the subscript for an associative array is a string.
- Shell Functions and Aliases: Two mechanisms - functions and aliases - can be used to assign a user-selected identifier to an existing command or shell script. Functions allow local variables and provide scoping for exception handling. Functions can be searched for and loaded on first reference the way scripts are.
- Substring Capabilities: KSH-93 allows you to create a substring of any given string either by specifying the starting offset and length, or by stripping off leading or trailing substrings during parameter substitution. You can also specify attributes, such as upper and lower case, field width, and justification to shell variables.
- More pattern matching capabilities: KSH-93 allows you to specify extended regular expressions for file and string matches.
- KSH-93 uses a hierarchical name space for variables. Compound variables can be defined and variables can be passed by reference. In addition, each variable can have one or more disciplines associated with it to intercept assignments and references.
- Improved debugging: KSH-93 can generate line numbers on execution traces. Also, I/O redirections are now traced. There is a DEBUG trap that gets evaluated before each command so that errors can be localized.
- Job Control: On systems that support job control, including System V Release 4, KSH-93 provides a job-control mechanism almost identical to that of the BSD "csh", version 4.1. This feature allows you to stop and restart programs, and to move programs between the foreground and the background.
- Added security: KSH-93 can execute scripts which do not have read permission and scripts which have the setuid and/or setgid set when invoked by name, rather than as an argument to the shell. It is possible to log or control the execution of setuid and/or setgid scripts. The noclobber option prevents you from accidentally erasing a file by redirecting to an existing file.
- KSH-93 can be extended by adding built-in commands at run time. In addition, KSH-93 can be used as a library that can be embedded into an application to allow scripting.
Documentation for KSH-93 consists of an "Introduction to KSH-93", "Compatibility with the Bourne Shell" and a manual page and a README file. In addition, the "New KornShell Command and Programming Language" book is available from Prentice Hall.