1. Avoid a cd back into ${.CURDIR} to run mkbuiltins when we know make
will first cd into ${.OBJDIR}. Keep the cwd to what make sets it to.
2. Don't tell mkbuiltins where to write to (= ${.OBJDIR}), but where to
get sources from (= ${.CURDIR}). This to compensate for point 1.
This fixes a problem with bmake's mk files that optimize ${.OBJDIR} to
expand to "." after changing cwd, not taking into account that the
target is pretty much undoing that and not getting the full path to the
object tree anymore.
New features:
* proper lazy evaluation of || and &&
* ?: ternary operator
* executable is considerably smaller (8K on i386) because lex and yacc are
no longer used
Differences from dash:
* arith_t instead of intmax_t
* imaxdiv() not used
* unset or null variables default to 0
* let/exp builtin (undocumented, will probably be removed later)
Obtained from: dash
This allows specifying a %job (which is equivalent to the corresponding
process group).
Additionally, it improves reliability of kill from sh in high-load
situations and ensures "kill" finds the correct utility regardless of PATH,
as required by POSIX (unless the undocumented %builtin mechanism is used).
Side effect: fatal errors (any error other than kill(2) failure) now return
exit status 2 instead of 1. (This is consistent with other sh builtins, but
not in NetBSD.)
Code size increases about 1K on i386.
Obtained from: NetBSD
This was removed in 2001 but I think it is appropriate to add it back:
* I do not want to encourage people to write fragile and non-portable echo
commands by making printf much slower than echo.
* Recent versions of Autoconf use it a lot.
* Almost no software still wants to support systems that do not have
printf(1) at all.
* In many other shells printf is already a builtin.
Side effect: printf is now always the builtin version (which behaves
identically to /usr/bin/printf) and cannot be overridden via PATH (except
via the undocumented %builtin mechanism).
Code size increases about 5K on i386. Embedded folks might want to replace
/usr/bin/printf with a hard link to /usr/bin/alias.
frobbing CFLAGS directly. DEBUG_FLAGS is something that can be specified
on the make command line without having to edit the Makefile directly.
Submitted by: Garrett Cooper
Due to the use of signed vs. unsigned chars on our various platforms, one gets
"warning: comparison is always true due to limited range of data type"
from GCC 3.3.
used so often that it's worth keeping it as a builtin.
Now that all the printf invocations from within the system startup
scripts, we can safely remove it.
Urged by: sheldonh :)
No MFC is planned so far because it may break compatibility and
violate POLA.
binary size increase is 3,784 bytes (about 0.6%).
I don't drop the printf builtin while I'm here because some /etc/rc.*
scripts seem to use it before mounting /usr where printf(1) resides.
Reviewed by: arch (sheldonh)
Inspired by: NetBSD, ksh
Clued by: ume (on how the printf builtin is used)
* Consistently misspell built-in as builtin.
* Add a builtin(1) manpage and create builtin(1) MLINKS for all shell
builtin commands for which no standalone utility exists. These MLINKS
replace those that were created for csh(1).
* Add appropriate xrefs for builtin(1) to the csh(1) and sh(1) manpages,
as well as to the manpages of standalone utilities which are supported
as shell builtin commands in at least one of the shells. In such
manpages, explain that similar functionality may be provided as a
shell builtin command.
* Improve sh(1)'s description of the cd builtin command. Csh(1) already
describes it adequately. Replace the cd(1) manpage with a builtin(1)
MLINKS link.
* Clean up some mdoc problems: use Xr instead of literal "foo(n)"; use
Ic instead of Xr for shell builtin commands.
* Undo English contractions.
Reviewed by: mpp, rgrimes
Removed explicit dependencies of foo.o on foo.c. These were mainly
placeholders for comments about missing dependencies of tools objects
on headers. This problem needs to be handled more generally.
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
so that simple regresssion tests based on `cmp' work. mkdep still
doesn't work right for these tools. They should probably be in
separate directories.
Sorted dependencies.
merge of parallel duplicate work by Steve Price and myself. :-]
There are some changes to the build that are my fault... mkinit.c was
trying (poorly) to duplicate some of the work that make(1) is designed to
do. The Makefile hackery is my fault too, the depend list was incomplete
because of some explicit OBJS+= entries, so mkdep wasn't picking up their
source file #includes.
This closes a pile of /bin/sh PR's, but not all of them..
Submitted by: Steve Price <steve@bonsai.hiwaay.net>, peter
didn't correctly start background jobs anymore. Strange that nobody
was complaining...
Add a dummy target for `builtins' in the Makefile, to prevent it
from attempting to build this file by compiling builtins.c. :-/
The && and || tokens do also terminate a command, not only the
newline.
While i was at it, disabled trace code by default, it served no good
purpose since it required the use of a debugger anyway to be turned
on. Instead, placed a hint in the Makefile on how to turn it on.
This makes the shell ~ 10 % faster and ~ 4 KB smaller. :)
Pointed out by: jan@physik.TU-Berlin.DE (Jan Riedinger)