ASH download URL is broken

[Randy McMurchy]

The only URL listed for downloading ASH is broken. If we cannot find a good URL, then Anduin (or a BLFS source mirror) should be used.

[dnicholson@…]

As ASH is mostly in the book to provide a Bourne compatible shell, another option would be to use the Heirloom shell. This is the actual Bourne shell source used from Open Solaris.

​http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/sh.html

I've been meaning to install this for a while to test out some scripts I have, but I haven't gotten around to it yet.

If we want to stick with ash, here are some Slackware mirrors and one I just picked:

​http://www.abnormalpenguin.com/slackware-mirrors.php
​ftp://slackware.mirrors.tds.net/pub/slackware/slackware_source/ap/ash/ash-0.4.0.tar.gz

[dnicholson@…]

I now grabbed the heirloom-sh and installed it. Very interesting to find out how many bash-isms I'm used to. Installation was as follows (best not to use `make install' unless you don't like your current sh!):

make
install -v -m755 sh /bin/jsh
install -v -m644 sh.1.out /usr/share/man/man1/jsh.1

[dnicholson@…]

I'm punting the ASH issue for now. I fixed the link to point to a new mirror in r6340. I'm gonna open a separate ticket about installing a Bourne shell. The patch we apply to ASH is gross.