[jwhat]

HI Raion,

I am using IRIX default sh == Korn Shell.

Yes appreciate your guidance and know that there are issues with Port Shell/Make scripting that need fixing.
In particular Ports uses:
- $( ) instead of classic shell “back quoting" "`"
- Uses $(( )) arithmetic rather than Korn let "blah"
- It seems to be relying on bmake collapsing $$ to single $ and allowing nested parameter expansion
- Initially can only download via http/ftp (not https)
- Initially need to disable CHECKSUM validation as this requires OpenSSL (or other digest generation alternate)

I have allowed for some of this in my updates to the .mk & .sh sources.
Before I move to having to bootstrap a bunch of other stuff like alternate ksh, sed, awk, perl etc, I want to see if can get basic process going.

I might have a look at much early and likely much downsized Port code to see if that is better candidate, as I decided to look at Ports originally to avoid having to manually download and bootstrap a whole lot of other SW.

On the "string bugs" front this might be the case if there are command line buffer overruns.

Need to get definitive diagnosis ...

Cheers from Oz,

jwhat/John