heirloom-project

the heirloom project provides traditional unix tools

original site: http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/

reason

i'd like to try to get this working with static compiled musl libc

sourceforge has been getting progressively flakier and cvs access/locking is hit or miss at best

status

use the musl branch

what works

compiling with a musl-cross-make toolchain should work for:

• heirloom
• heirloom-sh
• heirloom-devtools
• heirloom-doctools
• heirloom-ex-vi
  • traditional vi (aka ex-vi): http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/vi.html
  • musl branch has sbrk() fixes, setup for ncurses, and is configured to install in /usr/local/heirloom
  • works for normal editing tasks but isn't extensively tested
  • for something else: vim, neovim, elvis, nvi, busybox vi, ...

build in that order - should just be a make && make install

compilation is static, meaning you need musl libc, libstdc++, etc, .a libs

layout

everything is installed under /usr/local/heirloom by default

item	original path	new path
default (no personality) bin	/usr/5bin	/usr/local/heirloom/bin
default sbin	/usr/5bin	/usr/local/heirloom/sbin
default lib directory	/usr/5lib	/usr/local/heirloom/lib
defualt man directory	/usr/share/man/5man	/usr/local/heirloom/share/man
default files	/etc/default	/usr/local/heirloom/etc/default
SVID3/SVR4-style binaries	/usr/5bin	/usr/local/heirloom/5bin/sv3
SVID4/SVR4.2-style binaries	/usr/5bin/s42	/usr/local/heirloom/5bin/s42
POSIX.2/SUS-style binaries	/usr/5bin/posix	/usr/local/heirloom/5bin/posix
POSIX.1-2001/SUSv3-style binaries	/usr/5bin/posix2001	/usr/local/heirloom/5bin/posix2001
SVR4 UCB-style binaries	/usr/ucb	/usr/local/heirloom/ucb
UCB-style libraries	/usr/ucblib	/usr/local/heirloom/ucblib
development binaries	/usr/ccs/bin	/usr/local/heirloom/ccs/bin
development lib directory	/usr/ccs/lib	/usr/local/heirloom/ccs/lib
development man directory	/usr/ccs/share/man	/usr/local/heirloom/ccs/share/man

path precedence

probably something like (suit 5bin subdir order to taste for your environment):

PATH=${PATH}:/usr/local/heirloom/5bin/posix2001
PATH=${PATH}:/usr/local/heirloom/5bin/posix
PATH=${PATH}:/usr/local/heirloom/ucb
PATH=${PATH}:/usr/local/heirloom/ccs/bin
PATH=${PATH}:/usr/local/heirloom/5bin/s42
PATH=${PATH}:/usr/local/heirloom/5bin/sv3
PATH=${PATH}:/usr/local/heirloom/sbin
PATH=${PATH}:/usr/local/heirloom/bin
export PATH

what doesn't work / todo

• heirloom-pkgtools does not work and frankly i might not bother
• heirloom-nail does not work
  • mailx (aka nail) was from: http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/mailx.html
  • this doesn't work right now, not sure it ever will
  • use something else, preferably something newer
• settime is a broken symlink to touch
• troff and nroff probably need work
  • apply NROFF/TROFF base settings from heirloom-doctools/README in heirloom/man/man.dfl.in
• htemp2 in heirloom/spell breaks parallel make
• git submodules
  • won't work with "releases"; i.e., a tag wouldn't include (necessary) submodules
  • include dedicated netbsd-curses: https://github.com/sabotage-linux/netbsd-curses
  • include sortix libz: https://sortix.org/libz/
  • include bzip2: http://www.bzip.org/
• unify SUSBIN into DEFBIN?
• bison -y, flex, etc., vars/calls should be replaced with standard yacc, lex, etc.
• internal /usr/local/heirloom paths should be avoided for install, etc.

repo info

this is a git import of an rsync export of a cvs repository

initial import

something like:

mkdir -p heirloom
cd heirloom
mkdir -p cvs
rsync -ai a.cvs.sourceforge.net::cvsroot/heirloom/. ./cvs/.
mkdir -p git
mkdir -p cvs2git-tmp
cd cvs
cvs2git --blobfile=../cvs2git-tmp/git-blob.dat --dumpfile=../cvs2git-tmp/git-dump.dat --username=cvs2git
cd ../git
git init --bare heirloom.git
cd heirloom.git
cat ../cvs2git-tmp/git-blob.dat ../cvs2git-tmp/git-dump.dat | git fast-import
git gc --prune=now
cd ..
mkdir -p clone
cd clone
git clone ../heirloom.git
cd heirloom
git remote remove origin
git remote add origin git@github.com:ryanwoodsmall/heirloom-project.git
git push -u origin master
git tag -a -m 'initial checkin of heirloom project from sourceforge rsync of cvs repos - cvs2git - github' 20180622-sf-rsync-cvs2git
git push origin --tags

links

• https://sourceforge.net/p/forge/documentation/CVS/
• https://sourceforge.net/p/forge/documentation/rsync%20Backups/
• http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/cvs2git.html