Building ksh (Learning the Korn Shell, 2nd Edition)

C.3. Building ksh

Building any of the packages from source code is pretty straightforward. The full details, with a FAQ and notes, are given on the AT&T web site. Here is a walk-through of the steps. We show the steps for the ast-open package, but they're identical for the other source code packages.

Make sure you have a C compiler for your system. An ANSI/ISO C compiler is preferred, but a K&R compiler will work too. Getting a C compiler if you don't have one is beyond the scope of this book; contact your local system administrator.
Download the package(s) you wish to build into an otherwise empty directory. Here, we build the ast-open package from October 31, 2001:
```
$ ls
INIT.2001-10-31.tgz  ast-open.2001-10-31.tgz
```

Make the directory lib/package/tgz and move the files there:

$ mkdir lib lib/package lib/package/tgz
$ mv *.tgz lib/package/tgz

Extract the INIT package manually:

$ gzip -d < lib/package/tgz/INIT.2001-10-31.tgz | tar -xvpf -
\r\v\vNOTICE -- LICENSED SOFTWARE -- SEE README FOR DETAILS\r\v\v
README
src/Makefile
src/cmd/Makefile
src/lib/Makefile
...

If you don't have gzip, use the ratz program, as described earlier.

Initialize the list of available packages:

$ bin/package read
\r\v\vNOTICE -- LICENSED SOFTWARE -- SEE README FOR DETAILS\r\v\v
README
src/Makefile
src/cmd/Makefile
src/lib/Makefile
src/Mamfile
...

Start the compilation. This step is quite verbose and will take a while. Exactly how long depends upon the speed of your system and compiler, and upon which package you are building:

$ bin/package make
package: initialize the /home/arnold/ast-open/arch/linux.i386 view
package: update /home/arnold/ast-open/arch/linux.i386/bin/proto
package: update /home/arnold/ast-open/arch/linux.i386/bin/mamake
package: update /home/arnold/ast-open/arch/linux.i386/bin/ratz
package: update /home/arnold/ast-open/arch/linux.i386/bin/release
...

Install the created files. This can be done with the command bin/package install directory where directory is the location to place things in.

Alternatively, if all you're interested in is the ksh binary, you can just copy it. The compiled binary will be in a directory named arch/ARCH/bin, where ARCH represents your architecture, such as linux.i386:
```
cp arch/linux.i386/bin/ksh $HOME/bin/ksh93
```
Enjoy!