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Subject: Re: "configure" script fails catastrophically
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On Jul 29, 12:29 am, Andris Pavenis <andris DOT pave DOT  DOT  DOT  AT iki DOT fi> wrote:
> mike3 wrote:
> > Hi.
>
> > I was trying to run the "configure" script for GMP (GNU MP Bignum
> > Package) on DJGPP with "bash", and this happened:
>
> > bash-2.04$ ./configure
> > configure: loading site script c:/djgpp/share/config.site
> > configure: loading cache /dev/null
> > /configure: .: /dev/null: not a regular file
> > checking build system type... pentium4-pc-msdosdjgpp
> > checking host system type... pentium4-pc-msdosdjgpp
> > checking for a BSD-compatible install... /dev/env/DJDIR/bin/
> > ginstall.exe -c
> > checking whether build environment is sane... yes
> > checking for gawk... no
> > checking for mawk... no
> > checking for nawk... no
> > checking for awk... no
> > checking whether make sets $(MAKE)...
> > C:\unzipped\gmp-4.2.1>
>
> > Bam -- right there it goes back to the DOS prompt. Not to the bash
> > prompt but bash completely crashes somehow (without giving me any sort
> > of error message) and goes back to the DOS prompt. What is wrong here?
>
> > PS. I'm using Windows 2000 as the main operating system.
>
> Run it yesterday for both DJGPP v2.03 and and DJGPP v2.04 and there were
> no problems building GMP-4.2.1 and MPFR-2.2.1.
>
> You perhaps have some too old DJGPP binary packages installed built
> using DJGPP version 2.03r2. You may try inserting line 'set -x' in
> configure script and to look where it crashes, to get some hint which
> package to upgrade.

I did a fresh install of DJGPP and now it works. Thanks for the
answers
anyway. Had to get something called an "m4" too, BTW.