[MacPorts] #48799: Backporting to NEXTSTEP 3.3

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#48799: Backporting to NEXTSTEP 3.3
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 Reporter:  eike@…       |      Owner:  macports-tickets@…
     Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  Low          |  Milestone:  MacPorts Future
Component:  ports        |    Version:  2.3.3
 Keywords:  backport     |       Port:
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 Some of yours might remember NeXTSTEP 3

 Compiling any recent software on NS3 is quite hard.
 NS3.3 was Reno, but not yet BSD4.4, pre Posix.

 NS3.3 came with the orginal BSD bourne shell and the original m4, with gcc
 2.29, etc
 which makes just makes every modern ./configure fail.

 I got some way up, getting me some oldish bash first,
 and working up my way, the versions of all the tools.

 I did stop at posix threads,
 while I'm pretty much sure that this can be implemented in terms of Mach
 cthreads.
 We should copy this from Darwin.


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 I excuse: backporting to NS3 is only of limited interest.

 Please give me some advice:
 Should I base this on macports?
 Should I go pkgng?

 Homebrew is not an option,
 because homebrew needs a recent ruby.
 I want to play ruby on my cube.

 That's what it is all about.
 getting the software up step by step,
 from the heritage of NS3/BSD4.3/Mach2.5
 up to compile all of the new kit.
 (without any changes to the kernel interface -- all is user space!)

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/48799>
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