_build/oils.sh requires bash, but should only require /bin/sh (build/common.sh )

[b9Joker108]

I wish to install your shell in Termux, but your documentation confuses me greatly. Is the shell called: osh, ysh, oils or oils-for-unix? This confuses me greatly. Also, I am unrooted.

BTW, I hope the name of the shell is ysh, as it sounds like the name of a Un*x/*NIX shell.

Any assistance greatly appreciated!

Cheers

[andychu]

Yeah sorry there are 2 tarballs which is confusing now

• Remove INSTALL.html from /release/$VERSION page, point to oils-for-unix instructions #1886

I recommend installing the oils-for-unix tarball, which has README-native.txt with instructions inside. All you need is a C++ compiler

There is a single binary oils-for-unix, and symlinks osh and ysh

https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2023/03/rename.html#where-are-they-used

---

It is rough now, so if this is still not clear, then I recommend waiting a few months ... we recently switched to oils-for-unix, so it's new

I think @Melkor333 uses it with Termux though

[b9Joker108]

So, I had actually already downloaded and extracted the oils-for-unix tarball, so that is fortuitous and bodes well for the install. Configure worked. I then tried make, which didn't. Hence, the Issue.

Actioning your subsequent advice, I read: 'README-native.txt'. I then executed:

❯ pwd
/data/data/com.termux/files/home/oils-for-unix-0.21.0
❯ vim README-native.txt
❯ sh _build/oils.sh

_build/oils.sh: 80: build/common.sh: Syntax error: Bad function name

This is the context of line 80:

...
78    _compile_one "$compiler" "$variant" "" \                                                        
79     _gen/cpp/build_stamp.cc "_build/obj/$compiler-$variant-sh/_gen/cpp/build_stamp.o"              
80
81    _compile_one "$compiler" "$variant" "" \
82     _gen/data_lang/nil8.asdl.cc "_build/obj/$compiler-$variant-sh/_gen/data_lang/nil8.asdl.o"
83
84    _compile_one "$compiler" "$variant" "" \
85     _gen/data_lang/pretty.asdl.cc "_build/obj/$compiler-$variant-sh/_gen/data_lang/pretty.asdl.o"
...

Knowing what I should change, or edit, is a bit beyond my nooby pay grade. It is also a bit odd, as there is no code on line 80.

[b9Joker108]

FYI: I shot Samuel an email.

[andychu]

Oh can you try _build/oils.sh without sh?

If bash is on your machine, it should work

build/common.sh line 80 has a shell function named can-compile-32-bit, which works in bash, but not in other shells.

We should relax this -- thanks for testing!

[b9Joker108]

Oh, I totally misread that output, that it was about common.sh, instead of oils.sh.

Well, I ventured execution of the script with bash, instead of sh (which is symlinked to dash on Termux, following Debian):

❯ bash oils.sh

oils.sh: line 15: build/ninja-rules-cpp.sh: No such file or directory

oils.sh: Building oils-for-unix: _bin/cxx-opt-sh/oils-for-unix

CXX _gen/bin/oils_for_unix.mycpp.cc
CXX _gen/bin/text_files.cc
oils.sh: line 26: compile_one: command not found
oils.sh: line 28: compile_one: command not found
CXX _gen/core/runtime.asdl.cc
oils.sh: line 28: compile_one: command not found
CXX _gen/core/value.asdl.cc
oils.sh: line 28: compile_one: command not found
CXX _gen/cpp/build_stamp.cc
oils.sh: line 28: compile_one: command not found
CXX _gen/data_lang/nil8.asdl.cc
oils.sh: line 28: compile_one: command not found
CXX _gen/data_lang/pretty.asdl.cc
oils.sh: line 28: compile_one: command not found
CXX _gen/frontend/arg_types.cc
oils.sh: line 28: compile_one: command not found
CXX _gen/frontend/consts.cc
oils.sh: line 28: compile_one: command not found
CXX _gen/frontend/help_meta.cc
oils.sh: line 28: compile_one: command not found
CXX _gen/frontend/id_kind.asdl.cc
oils.sh: line 28: compile_one: command not found
CXX _gen/frontend/signal.cc
oils.sh: line 28: compile_one: command not found
CXX _gen/frontend/syntax.asdl.cc
oils.sh: line 28: compile_one: command not found
CXX _gen/osh/arith_parse.cc
oils.sh: line 28: compile_one: command not found
CXX _gen/ysh/grammar_tables.cc
oils.sh: line 28: compile_one: command not found
CXX cpp/core.cc
oils.sh: line 28: compile_one: command not found
CXX cpp/data_lang.cc
oils.sh: line 28: compile_one: command not found
CXX cpp/fanos.cc
oils.sh: line 28: compile_one: command not found
CXX cpp/fanos_shared.c
oils.sh: line 28: compile_one: command not found
CXX cpp/frontend_flag_spec.cc
oils.sh: line 28: compile_one: command not found
CXX cpp/frontend_match.cc
oils.sh: line 28: compile_one: command not found
CXX cpp/frontend_pyreadline.cc
oils.sh: line 28: compile_one: command not found
CXX cpp/libc.cc
oils.sh: line 28: compile_one: command not found
CXX cpp/osh.cc
oils.sh: line 28: compile_one: command not found
CXX cpp/osh_tdop.cc
oils.sh: line 28: compile_one: command not found
CXX cpp/pgen2.cc
oils.sh: line 28: compile_one: command not found
CXX cpp/pylib.cc
oils.sh: line 28: compile_one: command not found
CXX cpp/stdlib.cc
oils.sh: line 28: compile_one: command not found
CXX mycpp/bump_leak_heap.cc
oils.sh: line 28: compile_one: command not found
CXX mycpp/gc_builtins.cc
oils.sh: line 28: compile_one: command not found
CXX mycpp/gc_mops.cc
oils.sh: line 28: compile_one: command not found
CXX mycpp/gc_mylib.cc
oils.sh: line 28: compile_one: command not found
CXX mycpp/gc_str.cc
oils.sh: line 28: compile_one: command not found
CXX mycpp/hash.cc
oils.sh: line 28: compile_one: command not found
CXX mycpp/mark_sweep_heap.cc
oils.sh: line 28: compile_one: command not found
WAIT
real 0.00
user 0.00
sys 0.00
LINK _bin/cxx-opt-sh/oils-for-unix
link: extra operand ‘_bin/cxx-opt-sh/oils-for-unix’
Try 'link --help' for more information.
strip: '_bin/cxx-opt-sh/oils-for-unix': No such file
'osh' -> 'oils-for-unix'
'ysh' -> 'oils-for-unix'

I then restarted Termux, and executed: ysh, osh and oils-for-unix in succession, but no cigar. Which, I expected, given the output.

[Melkor333]

I think you forgot to ./configure. After that it should work well.
I also didn't install the packages 'globally' but instead added the custom install path to my PATH:

# cat ~/.profile
export PATH="~/.oils/bin:$PATH"
# ./configure --prefix ~/.oils
# _build/oils.sh
# ./install

After that it should work :)
(you need to restart termux after adding the line to ~/.profile)

[andychu]

Released - https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2024/06/release-0.22.0.html