Sony NEWS-OS 3.3

Sony NEWS-OS 3.3 on NEWS-1850

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NEWS-OS 3.3 is a pretty straight 4.3BSD (Tahoe?). The NEWS-1850 is a dual M68030 machine (25MHz; one of the 030 is an "I/O processor") with 16MB of RAM soldered.

NEWS-OS 3.3

Sony NEWS 1850 workstation

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NEWS-OS installation media has turned up on bitsavers:

http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/bits/Sony/NEWS-OS/

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It is not possible to change root's HOME directory to /root...

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.cshrc:

if ($term == xterm-256color) then
       setenv TERM vt100
endif

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.profile:

if [ $TERM = "xterm-256color" ]
   then TERM=vt100; export TERM
fi

# set a fancy prompt
PS1='\u@\h:\w\$ '
export PS1

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make-3.75

gcc-2.7.2.3:

./configure --enable-languages=c

cpplib.c:

#ifndef errno
extern int errno;
#endif

gcc-2.95.3: FAILS

needs
CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/bash
SHELL=/bin/bash
--enable-languages=c --disable-nls --disable-multilib

fix Makefile. remove c++ from LANGUAGES
libiberty:
size_t is declared in <stddef.h>
mkstemp.c | size_t
setenv.c  | size_t, NULL undefined

failes with internal compiler error 4

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gawk 3.0.6:

protos.h
typedef int mode_t;
config.h:
#undef STRTOD

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NEWS-OS doesn't know about struct dirent

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NEWS-OS has buggy tolower() and topper().

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tin-2.4.4-snapshot:

./configure --enable-nntp-only --with-domain=pcde.inka.de --with-nntp-default-server=news.akk.org --disable-nls --enable-broken-system-fix m68k-sony-newsos3.3 --with-shell=/usr/local/bin/bash --with-editor=/usr/local/bin/vim --with-domain=pcde.inka.de 

include/autoconf.h
#       define DECL_FREE 1
#       define DECL_MALLOC 1
#       define DECL_REALLOC 1

add to pcre/pcre_globals.c:

extern void *malloc(size_t);
extern void *realloc(void *, size_t);
extern void free(void *);

pcre/dftables.c:
NEWS-OS3.3 fopen() doesn't understand argument "wb", but fails
silently, rather then giving an error message.
Change to "w+"

also needs tolower and toupper fixes.

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make-3.77:

#define NULL 0
typedef int size_t;
doesn't work

make-3.76.1:

works

grep-2.4.2: FAILs

edit src/system.h to undef HAVE unistd.h
SEEK_CUR needs to be defined.
lseek lives in <sys/file.h>
NEWS-OS doesn't have strcoll()
doesn't work

grep-2.2:

works

m4-1.4.5: FAIL

NEWS-OS doesn't know about MB_CUR_MAX
doesn't work.

m4-1.4.3:

works

top-3.3:

NEWS-OS doesn't have pid_t
typedef int pid_t;

vim-4.6:

add
#include <sys/file.h>
#ifndef SEEK_SET
#define SEEK_SET 0
#endif
#ifndef SEEK_END
#define SEEK_END 2
#endif

to:
fileio.c
memfile.c
memline.c

also needs strstr()
use libmissing

NEWS-OS doesn't have dirent.h.
Replace #include dirent.h with sys/dir.h in ctags/ctags.c

won't compile ctags. don't use ctags. vim alone works.

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/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/m68k-sony-newsos/2.7.2.3/include/machine/machparam.h:88: /warning: /*' within comment

apparent bug in news-os include files. fix in /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/m68k-sony-newsos/2.7.2.3/include/machine/machparam.h and in /usr/include/include/machine/machparam.h

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#ifndef SEEK_SET
#define SEEK_SET 0
#endif

#ifndef SEEK_END
#define SEEK_END 2
#endif

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#ifndef L_tmpnam
#define L_tmpnam 25
#endif

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binutils-2.9.1: FAIL

gas needs to be like a Sun3. doesn't work.

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libmissing: remove strftime.o and uname.o, because it won't compile