Advice needed re GeekGadgets Environment

[tonyw]

I'm trying to get the "Amiga port" of the Kaffe JVM to work (see earlier thread). I have scraped up source distributions for versions 0.7, 0.9 and 1.07. I have also managed to find a binary for version 0.7 which sort of runs (it doesn't run "Hello, World", but that's another problem).

Like all "ports", the Kaffe distributions are incomplete (missing headers, libraries, etc) and have to be built using a particular environment - in this case, a Linux-like environment running under AmigaOS.

My problem is that I can not build a new binary from the distributed sources. The Readme says that I have to "use a GeekGadgets environment", whatever that means. I have a couple of versions of gcc, the latest being 2.95.3. I also have sh.

The build depends on the shell interpreting stuff like this configuration script, then calling make to build it:
"# This configure script is free software; the Free Software Foundation
# gives unlimited permission to copy, distribute and modify it.

# Defaults:
ac_help=
ac_default_prefix=/usr/local
# Any additions from configure.in:
ac_help="$ac_help
--with-afs      if you are running AFS"
ac_help="$ac_help
--with-curses      use the curses library instead of the termcap library"
ac_help="$ac_help
--with-glibc-malloc   use the GNU C library version of malloc"
ac_help="$ac_help"

etc. I guess I need a working version of bash or some such shell, running under OS3.9, to interpret this script. I can only find a source distribution for bash, and I can't compile it without bash  :-x

Can someone give me some advice on what I need to compile this stuff? I'm not a Linux geek, so I'm out of my depth here. I'm trying to avoid rebuilding the whole thing using SAS, since it looks like gcc will be the preferred compiler for OS4.

thanks

tony

[pteppic]

should be able to find all you need at www.geekgadgets.org and ftp.geekgadgets.org but there seems to have been some trouble getting there recently.

pt

[tonyw]

Thanks, pt, I know what's there, but I don't know what I need. That is the question.

tony

[tonyw]

What? No one can tell me which flavour of shell I have to run? No Linux/Unix geeks out there?

tony
 :-?

[pteppic]

Found a working mirror by searching through Amiga.org archives.

ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/source/geekgadgets


Try here first ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/source/geekgadgets/amiga/m68k/snapshots/current/ then look through the alpha directory to install the latest gcc and anything else you need.
Unfortunatly I still couldnt get to the web site,  I remember there being a good guide about how to do the installation there.

[tonyw]

pt, thanks for the reply, but you still don't understand.

I don't want a link to a source of geekgadgets code - I already know that and I've downloaded and tried several with no success.

What I want to know is "What sort of shell do I need?"

What flavour of Linux or Unix shell executes this sort of script file?

Once I know what I'm looking for, I can go searching further in the archives.

tony

[Piru]

ftp://ftp.geekgadgets.org/pub/geekgadgets/amiga/m68k/snapshots/current/bin/pdksh-5.2.12-bin.tgz

[tonyw]

Thanks Piru, that's a later version of pdksh than the one I've tried before. It sort of runs, at least now it doesn't complain about the syntax of the script file. I had to import the script file into an Amiga editor and export it again to get rid of all the CR/LF pairs - now the syntax is accepted. So much for the "Amiga" version.

The main problem now is that the script uses Unix pathnames and calls Unix utilities like sed, rm, etc.

I guess I'll just have to load them all, and gradually approach the Unix environment that the script expects. Ah, the joys of taking over someone else's code.

cheers

tony

[Piru]

he main problem now is that the script uses Unix pathnames and calls Unix utilities like sed, rm, etc.

I guess I'll just have to load them all, and gradually approach the Unix environment that the script expects. Ah, the joys of taking over someone else's code.

Right, you need to get fileutils and some other packages.
In fact, if you have the bandwidth you're probably best off by installing the whole GG.

These GG nix cmds handle nix pathnames automagic. You probably need to add some assigns or tune the makefiles though.

[pteppic]

pt, thanks for the reply, but you still don't understand.

I understood, but I just didn't have a better answer  ;-)
I've never looked at Kaffe so dont know what you need, other than the standard gg installation.

Good luck with it.

Pt

[tonyw]

I'm getting there now, anyway. Just now looking for "cat" and "sleep" which don't appear to be in Aminet or GG archives . . .

Thanks for the help.

tony