NeXTStep Software Ports

Porting Software to NeXTStep

This is the order in which I compile, patch, and install software on a NeXTStep 3.3 installation. Since the OS has a maximum of a 2GB partition size (and I'm using a SCSI2SD for my drive), I have a series of 2GB partitions mounted as /storage1, /storage2, and so forth. In my case I install all compiled software to /storage2/opt as an installation path to avoid cluttering up the primary filesystem and running out of space.

This assumes that NeXTStep user and developer are installed with all available patches.

1. Add /storage2/opt/bin to /.cshrc

2. Compile uname from this repository.

   • Edit the Makefile to change DESTDIR to something, in my case /storage2/opt
   • make ; make install
   • Test that it works via uname -a

3. sed 3.02

   • configure --prefix=/storage2/opt
   • make install

4. fileutils 3.16

   • configure --prefix=/storage2/opt
   • make install

5. make 3.76

   • configure --prefix=/storage2/opt
   • make install

6. m4 1.4.1

   • configure --prefix=/storage2/opt
   • make install

7. textutils 1.22

   • ./configure --prefix=/storage2/opt
   • make install

8. bash 2.03

   • ./configure --prefix=/storage2/opt
   • make install

9. grep 2.3

   • ./configure --prefix=/storage2/opt
   • make install

10. perl 5.005_04

    • <for OpenStep i386, edit hints/next_4.sh and uncomment the line starting with 'optimize', and add the line archs='i386'>
    • ./Configure -Dprefix=’/storage2/opt’ (default answers)
    • make; make test
    • make install

11. autoconf 2.53

    • configure --prefix=/storage2/opt
    • make install

12. gawk 3.0.6

    • configure --prefix=/storage2/opt
    • make install

13. termcap 1.3.1

    • configure --prefix=/storage2/opt
    • make install

14. automake 1.4-p6

    • configure --prefix=/storage2/opt
    • make install

15. openssl 0.9.6m

    • ./config --prefix=/storage2/opt –openssldir=/storage2/opt/openssl
    • make install

16. patch 2.5.9

    • configure --prefix=/storage2/opt
    • make install

17. bash 2.05b (patched with all available)

    • patch -p0 < ../bash205b-001 (run each time for 001 through 013)
    • bash ./configure --prefix=/storage2/opt
    • make install

18. libiconv 1.6.1

    • configure --prefix=/storage2/opt
    • make install

19. m4 1.4.4

    • configure --prefix=/storage2/opt
    • make install

20. zlib 1.2.8

    • configure --prefix=/storage2/opt
    • make install

21. bison 1.875

    • ./configure --prefix=/storage2/opt
    • make install

22. flex 2.5.4a

    • configure --prefix=/storage2/opt
    • make install

23. findutils 4.1 (not one of the dot releases)

    • configure --prefix=/storage2/opt
    • make install

24. wget 1.4.5

    • configure --prefix=/storage2/opt
    • make install

25. pcre 3.4

    • configure --build=next --prefix=/storage2/opt
    • make install

26. sh-utils 1.16

    • configure --prefix=/storage2/opt
    • make install

27. libtool 1.3.5

    • configure --prefix=/storage2/opt
    • make install

28. openssh 3.4p1

    • configure --prefix=/storage2/opt --with-zlib=/storage2/opt --sysconfdir=/etc/ssh --with-md5-passwords --with-privsep-path=/var/empty --with-privsep-user=sshd --with-ipv4-default --without-shadow
    • make install

29. screen 3.7.6

    • configure --prefix=/storage2/opt
    • make install
    • cp ./etc/etcscreenrc /storage2/opt/etc/screenrc
    • cat ./terminfo/screencap >> /etc/termcap

30. gcc 2.8.1

    • configure --prefix=/storage2/opt --enable-languages='c,objc,c++,f77' --disable-shared --disable-threads --enable-cpp
    • make CFLAGS='-O' LIBCFLAGS='-g -O2' LIBCXXFLAGS='-g -O2 -fno-implicit-templates' bootstrap
    • make install

31. gettext 0.10.37

    • configure --prefix=/storage2/opt
    • make install

32. gcc 2.95.3 (with patch from this github repo)

    • patch -p1 < ../gcc-2.95.3.next.patch
    • configure --prefix=/storage2/opt --enable-languages='c,objc,c++,f77' --disable-shared --disable-threads --enable-cpp
    • make CFLAGS='-O' LIBCFLAGS='-g -O2' LIBCXXFLAGS='-g -O2 -fno-implicit-templates' bootstrap
    • make install
    • cd /storage2/opt/lib/gcc-lib/m68k-next-nextstep3/2.95.3
    • patch -p0 < /storage2/src/gcc.2.95.3.specs.patch

33. glib 1.2.10

    • bash ./configure --prefix=/storage2/opt
    • make install

34. make 3.80

    • bash ./configure --prefix=/storage2/opt
    • make install

35. sed 4.1

    • bash ./configure --prefix=/storage2/opt
    • make install

36. pkgconfig 0.3.0

    • bash ./configure --prefix=/storage2/opt
    • make install

37. unzip 5.52

    • cp unix/Makefile .
    • vi Makefile (change prefix to /storage2/opt)
    • make next3x