On Apr 14, 2015, at 1:11 AM, Cormac O'Brien wrote:
I downloaded a cross compiler that was made to make ppc elf binaries. I don't think there is an Apple supplied ppc elf cross compiler.
I'd suggest building your own binutils and gcc, it doesn't take too long and usually works a bit better.
It is such a pain to build gcc. I think it used up an entire day when I built gcc 4.9. That is an experience I hope never to repeat. Plus the cross compiler I downloaded works just fine, so there isn't really a need.
(Unless others here think it's OK to depend on bash instead.)
Come on people, switch to bash. It's better. What would we miss if we did switch to bash?
I think there are probably quite a few people on tcsh or zsh. sh is virtually guaranteed, bash is not.
Your saying there are computers out there without bash? It sounds hard to believe. Bash is such a popular shell. Even Cygwin comes with bash. If bash is such a problem, then I guess I could use awk or something else to do the work I need. I'm not honestly concerned with the theoretical. Is there a unix-like system out there that doesn't come with bash that OpenBIOS is expected to support?