Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/09/29/05:00:34
On Thu, 26 Sep 1996, Chuck Adams wrote:
> ANYWAY, I'm trying to compile gnu emacs, and aside from the adventures of
> trying to chase down sed, then making .bat files for mv and rm, I find out
> that good ol DOS, 8.3 filenames, longer filenames than that in the source
> tree, well, you know what happens. My question is, do I have to manually
> rename all the long files and edit the makefile to reflect them? or if I use
> DJtar, will it compile okay somehow?
You should use DJTAR to unzip the archive, or else you will have filename
problems. You should be able to use any port of Sed, but the one which
comes with DJGPP is probably the best choice, since the build process was
actually tested with it. Get the ports of `mv' and `rm' from the latest
GNU Fileutils port you can get. After that, issue the following two
commands:
config msdos
make install
and you should see it compile without a single warning or error. If this
doesn't work for you, post here the exact messages that you get.
Where did you get the port of Make that doesn't do anything on NT? What
version of DJGPP do you use?
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