Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 13:45:27 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: Paul Everlund <tdv94ped@cs.umu.se> Cc: Rohit Panda <prohit99@yahoo.com>, Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: where can i get the source command binary ??? Message-ID: <20020420114527.GA33619@student.uu.se> In-Reply-To: <3CC151BE.100B077E@cs.umu.se> References: <20020420111506.20847.qmail@web12801.mail.yahoo.com> <3CC151BE.100B077E@cs.umu.se>
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On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 01:32:14PM +0200, Paul Everlund wrote: > Rohit Panda wrote: > > > > hi, > > but is there any way i can get the source code ????? > > how to hack to get the source code . > > > > thanks > > rohit > > Not the best, but maybe the easiest way is to go to the ports > collection and the shells "department". Do a make for the shell > you want to hack in, and the sources will be fetched from some > site. Wait until it has been unpacked and patches are applied. > When it starts to compile, just hit CTRL+C. Now the patched Doing a plain 'make' and then stopping with CTRL+C is not the best way to do this. It is much better to do a 'make patch' or 'make configure' which will cause the build process to stop after the patch/configure step. Then one can look at the code or change it. > source code for the shell of your choice is in the directory > work/name_of_shell_and_version/. Now it's just for you to find > the right file, where the source code is, and start to do what > you want to do. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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