Thread: MINIX Help

I was supposed to modify the echo.c code of MINIX. I moved to the directory : /usr/src/commands/simple and created the echo.c file with vi editor.
I compiled it (cc) and then edited Makefile with vi editor. (Actually added echo where was needed)
Then i moved to usr/src and hit: "make world" to translate Minix' core and after:"hdboot" to use the new one. But i'm still confused on how i'm supposed to run the new echo.
I found the echo code of MINIX to ...../commands/ash/bltin and i see that despite what i've done that's the one still used by MINIX.
Any ideas?
(If i just wanted to run my echo.c file with MINIX what would i have to do?)
Thanks

Originally Posted by CornedBee

Well, built-ins are preferred. And if you're supposed to modify echo.c, why did you create a new one?

Because the teacher said i had to go to ...../simple and modify the existing file. The only problem is that that there is no f******* existing echo file in there.
Ok is there any way of "compelling" MINIX to use my code?

Originally Posted by CornedBee

Modify the code in /commands/ash/bltin.

Also, if /simple is what I think, then there should be an echo binary in /bin or /usr/bin; you could call that explicitly using a full path.

Sorry for my "ignorance" but could you explain what do you mean by saying: call /usr/bin/echo? Where should i use the full path?

Thanks Corned Bee! You really helped a lot. I was running the commands i had constructed or modified from usr/bin and managed to make them work, till this morning i figured out that i could rename echo as echo2 or echo_i_am_stupid and don't have conflicts with the biltin commands. Because replacing the existing commands wasn't something i wanted at the time.
The problem is that after 15h of programming the brain doesn't work very good.
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