ksh93: doesn't use the right compiler or arch flags

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

ksh93 doesn't ensure it's UsingTheRightCompiler nor using the right build_arch. It has a peculiar complicated non-autoconf build process that makes telling it these options unnecessarily difficult. It allegedly has the ability to specify CC as args (see "bin/package help"), but according to ​this 2007 message on their mailing list, which received no reply, it doesn't work; I can't get it to work either. It also allegedly supports setting CFLAGS, though I'm not sure about LDFLAGS; I had trouble specifying these as well.

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[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Brett has retired from MacPorts.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

In f3fde48acc6d9c84b382b08e2e0fa8f539964cfc/macports-ports (master):

ksh93: Update to 20181007

Closes: #32182
Closes: #43392

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

In 5bc6083bd8b7959b683d07ee8a74659771794a46/macports-ports (master):

ksh93: Reinstate and revert to 2012-08-01

The ksh community has rejected the past few years' worth of development
that led to the release of ksh 2020.0.0 (currently available in the ksh
and ksh-devel ports). That work has been moved to a branch in the
upstream repo and its master has been reverted to ksh93u+, with no
plans for major further development. The developer who brought us
ksh2020 no longer plans to continue its development either.

Reopens: #32182
Reopens: #43392

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Replying to ryandesign:

I can't get it to work either.

I'll commit a fix shortly. I filed this ticket in 2011 and we now use the version from 2012. Either they fixed something by 2012 to make this work, or quite possibly I was misled by the fact that this peculiar build system still prints build output claiming that it is compiling using cc, when in fact cc is a wrapper script that calls the compiler we specify.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

In eef1a7e2b2fcd84a861687541ec2623e2d614fea/macports-ports (master):

ksh93: Use the right flags and compiler

Also honor build.jobs and be more specific about which sh we want.

Closes: #32182