ksh93 on Caldera

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 09:27:36 -0400 (EDT)
Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> > I need to run ksh93 on Caldera 3.1.1. The pdksh that comes with 3.1.1
> > lacks features used in some test scripts that we want to run on Linux.
> >
> > I downloaded the compiled ksh93 for Linux from AT&T, only to see that it
> > uses glibc 2.3, which I do not have installed.
> 
> I'm confused here.  If you compiled it from source, then it should be
> using whatever version of glibc that you have, not some other version.  Or
> did it not compile successfully due to a glibc-2.3 prereq?

I was first trying the pre-compiled version from AT&T. That one needed the
2.3 version. 

> > My question is, would I be able to simply make the glibc 2.3 binary
> > available for the program and have it run? I do not want to do a real
> > install of a new glibc as I expect it to be a potential problem. I
> 
> Upgrading glibc to 2.3 shouldn't be hard.  I've done it several times
> withou any problems.  Going to 3.x is another story altogether.  If you
> plan to maintain this box for a long time, you'll be saving youself a ton
> of grief by upgrading glibc.

So it 'could' be as simple as compiling/installing it? No dependency
hassles?

I have found the ksh source at at&t. One needs to install their 'package'
package to make all this easy. I have done this and have a compiled ksh. We
will next see what the test scripts make of this. They are one of the
things (maybe the only thing) we currently depend on UnixWare for.

After the port to ksh93 on Linux, they are headed for tcl, which has been a
task put off for far too long. We are probably the only company in the world
that has all our hardware test scripts written in ksh. We used to have a
very strange hardware group...

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