Porting to RISC OS

[Stefan Bellon]

Matthias Andree wrote:
> Stefan Bellon <sbellon at sbellon.de> writes:

> >> What was special about config.h and Makefile that ./configure
> >> didn't get right?
> >
> > Simple: We don't have a /bin/sh compatible shell on RISC OS. ;-)

> Wow. And no-one bothered to port some BSD's /bin/sh or GNU bash or
> pdksh or zsh?

To be honest, wo *do* have a port of bash, but ...

> Either of these should work in compatibility mode (most automatically
> enable that mode when called as /bin/sh, some can be forced to comply
> with a command line option).

... and then what? We don't have ls. We don't have rm. We don't have
mv. Those commands are all called differently here. Directories are not
separated by '/' character, but by '.' character ... and so on. I'd be
interested to see how you integrated that into ./configure. ;-)

-- 
Stefan Bellon