Kurtis Rader

We provide a means, via the `-Dfallback_version=1.2.3-whatever` build option, to override the hardcoded default if git metadata isn't available. Any distro source archive is free to use that. What I'm...

@jghub, Have you ever used a revision control system like Git? In the case of Git the commit hash is derived from the files being changed and the commit message....

> your release(s), seemingly, do not put the hash into the version string even if they could (building from git repo). correct? That is not correct. The commit hash is...

> am not at present using your semver as the prefix, but rather the YYYYMMDD date corresponding to the commit, as is MacPorts custom for identifying development versions. That's fine....

I can reproduce this using the current master branch from an interactive shell copy/pasting the following script but not when executing it non-interactively: ``` typeset -p .sh.type typeset -Ttyp1 typ1=(...

@ormaaj LOL. Yeah, I don't doubt what you say. I've been chipping away at fixing bugs in the ksh name/value code for over two years. The appalling quality of that...

The *conftab.c* module is dynamically generated by the *src/lib/libast/comp/conf.sh* script. It's part of the ksh `getconf` builtin and associated `astconf()` API that we desperately want to remove. We haven't done...

> Anything wrong here? @sneyx123, No, there is nothing obvious in that output which would cause us to recognize a problem building ksh on your system. However, unexpected problems from...

Also, please read #1178 and #994 where we recognize this project is unlikely to build or pass the unit tests on a SVR4 based system like Solaris. Fixing those issues...

> There is some funny "{" "}" nesting if the "#ifdef" is true : Not surprised. We've cleaned up many such problems in the past two years as we've added...