Porting to OS/2: Install coreutils(file, shell, text utils)
Unix shell scripts use many external tiny programs. GNU make a collection of such utilities called coreutils. And these utilities are expected to exist on every platforms. So our platform, OS/2 also have to have these utilities. coreutils There are many versions of coreutils on OS/2, currently. But, I recommend coreutils which seemed to be developed to test kLIBC. You can get this here, ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc/alpha/coreutils-5.94.zip Unzip this into a root of the drive on which gcc was installed. unzip coreutils-5.94.zip -d x:\ If you don't like that utils are in x:\bin, then move them to x:\usr\bin. Of course, you should add x:\bin or x:\usr\bin to your PATH. If you're interested in coreutils, use it. However, I recommend to use separate distributions if possible. Because they are more stable and work as expected better although they are older(coreutils appeared after these utils as a collection of them). Instead, if you have a problem with these utils...