Re: VirtualBox additions (was Re: Installing, then installing CDE)

At Sat, 22 Aug 2026 17:02:21 +0300, Valery Ushakov <[email protected]> wrote:
Subject: Re: VirtualBox additions (was Re: Installing, then installing CDE)
>
> kbuild is basically a bunch of GNU things
> (sed, gmake (hwavily hacked), etc) and NetBSD(!) ash, packaged
> together to be buildable on Windows and OS/2 among other things, so
> obviously it doesn't need any active "development" except catching up
> with compilers becoming progressively stricter (e.g, iirc, the gnu sed
> version was so old that it assumed HAVE_STRING_H means System V, and
> had k&r getopt.c).

This sounds like something that could be done without, except maybe for
the hacked gmake.

I.e. it sounds like they were trying to recreate a unix-ish build system
that would work on other systems.

So fundamentally the inputs are all basically makefiles and shell
scripts, no?

Maybe even the gmake isn't too far gone and only the makefiles need a
bit of patching?

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