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https://github.com/duncaen/lobase

Port of the OpenBSD userland to Linux.
https://github.com/duncaen/lobase

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Port of the OpenBSD userland to Linux.

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lobase

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lobase is a port of the OpenBSD userland to Linux.



Caution

-------



There are subtle differences in GNU coreutils and the OpenBSD userland,

replacing coreutils on Linux system without caution will result in

issues with varying impact.



If you build your own linux system from the ground up and you know that

your scripts are all portable you can use lobase as main coreutils.



Otherwise I suggest to use a prefixed installation and adding lobase to

your users shell `PATH`.



Installation

------------



	$ autoreconf -fi

	$ ./configure

	$ make

	# make install



To speed up the compilation use multiple make jobs:



	$ MAKE_JOBS=$(cat /proc/cpuinfo|grep processor|wc -l)

	$ make -j"$MAKE_JOBS"

	# make -j"$MAKE_JOBS" install



Prefix Installation

-------------------



You can install lobase into its own prefix and then use the `PATH`

environment variable to prefer lobases binaries over the default

coreutils for your users shell.



	$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/lobase



Build and install lobase and then add lobases bin and sbin directories

to your path.

To make this permanent, set `PATH` in your shell profile.



	$ PATH=/usr/local/lobase/bin:/usr/local/lobase/sbin:$PATH



Simple test to verify that lobase is used:



	$ which which

	/usr/local/lobase/bin/which



Dependencies

------------



- autoconf

- make (GNU Make)

- cc (gcc, clang)

- yacc (byacc, bison)

- lex (flex)



- libedit (bc)

- libevent (cu)

- libressl

  - libcrypto (bc,dc)

- ncurses (bc,ul)

- zlib (grep)



Debian:



	# apt-get install libedit-dev libevent-dev libssl-dev libz-dev



Void Linux:



	# xbps-install libedit-devel libevent-devel libressl-devel zlib-dev



Not included

------------



Some projects already have portable versions and are not included in lobase.



- acme-client	https://github.com/kristapsdz/acme-client-portable

- cwm		https://github.com/chneukirchen/cwm

- file		https://github.com/brynet/file

- libressl	https://www.libressl.org/

  - nc

- mandoc	http://mandoc.bsd.lv/

  - man

  - apropos

- sndio		http://www.sndio.org/

  - aucat

  - aucatctl

- smtpd		https://www.opensmtpd.org/

- ssh		https://www.openssh.com/



Broken

------



- cu		should be simple to fix

- ftp



TODO

----



- mk/bsd.prog.mk

  - add DPADD support



- mk/bsd.lib.mk

  - install headers

  - build shared libraries?



- libtool?



lib

---



liboutil	Parts of OpenBSDs libutil

libopenbsd	Parts of OpenBSDs libc



bin

---



cat

chmod           Some small differences because OpenBSD support permissions for symlinks

cp

date

dd              No SIGINFO support, use SIGUSR1 instead

df              No support for raw devices on linux

domainname

echo

ed

expr

hostname

kill

ksh

ln

ls              No support for file flags (-o)

md5

mkdir

mv

pax

pwd

rm

rmdir

sleep

stty

sync

test



sbin

----

mknod

nologin



usr.bin

-------



apply

awk

banner

basename

bc

biff

cal

calendar

cap_mkdb

cmp

col

colrm

column

comm

compress

csplit

ctags

cu

cut

dc

deroff

diff

diff3

dirname

du

encrypt

env

expand

false

file

find

fmt

fold

from

ftp

getconf

getent

getopt

grep

head

hexdump

htpasswd

id              Does not support -R to show the current processes routing table

indent

join

jot

lam

leave

lndir

logger

logname

look

lorder

mail

mkdep

mktemp

newsyslog

nice

nl

nohup

paste

patch

pkg-config

pr

printenv

printf

readlink

renice

rev

rs

sdiff

sed

shar

signify

sort

spell

split

stat            Does not support file flags, generations and birthtime on linux

tail            There are small differences in how -f handles file truncations,

                kqueue provides events for file truncations, inotify just notifies

                about a file modification.

tee

telnet

tftp

time

touch

tr

true

tsort

tty

ul

uname

unexpand

unifdef

uniq

units

unvis

uudecode

uuencode

vacation

vis

wc

what

which

whois

xargs

xinstall        Does not support file flags (-f)

yes



usr.sbin

--------



chroot

dev_mkdb

mtree           No file flags support

rdate