Ya, I was able to compile bash too. The latest version of perl compiles
also, just don't make the test suite, it fails for some reason...


--jon


On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Michael Kukat wrote:

> Hi !
> 
> i just gave fetched the GNU bash 2.03 to try to compile it under NetBSD/vax.
> Result: It worked ! (Wasn't really possible with 1.14.7 i tried before :-)
> Now let's get this bit of luxury under NetBSD/vax, you can download the
> binaries at:
> 
> http://www.camaronet.de/download/bash-2.0.3-NetBSD-vax.tgz
> 
> Please don't blame me if the file doesn't get downloaded correctly, i don't
> know if my provider already fixed the problem with the MIME-types. (Will look
> into it right now).
> 
> Just untar this in the root dir (/), the files can be found at some locations
> in /usr/local... bash is /usr/local/bin/bash. Just enter this in your
> /etc/passwd, write a nice /etc/bashrc and be happy.
> 
> Warning: i compiled in nearly all options, so the binary is very big. I think
> this is not really a useful shell for 4 MB boxes. If you don't have much RAM,
> you can strip the binary, the size will shrink from currently about 1,6 MB to
> about 380 KB. Just enter:
> 
> strip /usr/local/bin/bash
> 
> for this.
> 
> More info about bash at http://www.fsf.org/
> 
> Have fun... Michael
>