heirloom-sh-050706

Introduction to heirloom-sh

The heirloom-sh package is a portable variant of the traditional Unix Bourne Shell.

Apply a patch to bring up the source to the last upstream commit:

patch -Np1 -i ../heirloom-sh-050706-final-updates.patch

Now, apply a patch to fix the build with glibc 2.34 or newer:

patch -Np1 -i ../heirloom-sh-050706-glibc234-2.patch

Install heirloom-sh by running the following command:

make

Now, as the root user:

make install

As the root user, update /etc/shells to include the Bourne shell program names:

cat >> /etc/shells << "EOF"
/usr/5bin/sh
/usr/5bin/jsh
EOF

Installed Programs: jsh (link to sh), and sh

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: None

jsh	is a symlink pointing to sh
sh	is the Bourne shell