Porting to RISC OS

[Matthias Andree]

Stefan Bellon <sbellon at sbellon.de> writes:

>> 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. ;-)

Hum. Interesting effort, but not mine.

Then the RISCOS UNIX emulation layer is less complete than those
available for Windows (cygwin, mingw32) and AmigaOS (ixemul). ;-)

Makes me wonder how they boostrap GCC on RISCOS...

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Matthias Andree

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