[ksh93-integration-discuss] webrev status

[Roland Mainz]

Mike Kupfer wrote:
> 
> Okay, I've posted preliminary ksh93 webrev at
> http://cr.grommit.com/~kupfer/ksh93/.  As I mentioned in my earlier
> mail, there are a few entries in the webrev that are broken (e.g.,
> usr/src/lib/libcmd/sparcv9/Makefile), but everything else that I've
> looked at looks okay.

Thanks! :-)

> Steve Lau and I will look at what's going on with the broken entries.

Ok...

> >>>>> "Roland" == Roland Mainz <roland.mainz at nrubsig.org> writes:
> 
> Roland> I assume it is Ok to do all three things in parallel (e.g.
> Roland> integrating review feedback, the update of the project's Nevada
> Roland> basis and the update to the lastest version of ksh93)
> 
> I'd expect the second two things (update to recent Nevada build and
> update to latest ksh93) to be fairly independent of each other.  (If
> they're not, that would be something to look at more closely.  We want
> the maintenance burden for dropping in new ksh93 versions to be as small
> as possible.)

AFAIK this is just the usual (dumb) apply patch, adjust for the "flag
days" (mainly the mapfile-spec thing) and rebuild - that's all (the
heavywheight stuff is to get my two machines reinstalled from scratch -
and then the long build cycle times will make this work weary... ;-( ).

> As far as making changes based on review feedback, I think the
> scheduling is up to you.  If I were doing the work, I'd look at each
> suggested change and then decide whether to make it before or after the
> Nevada and ksh93 updates.

Ok...

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Bye,
Roland

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