Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/01/01/01:39:06
On Tue, 31 Dec 1996, Alaric B. Williams wrote:
> Has anyone ever ported GUILE to DOS?
Try searching the mail archives, I think I saw an announcement some time
ago about such a port.
> I dled it, but what did I find staring me in the face? A configure
> script. Sigh.
Failing the above search, you should know that the DJGPP port of `bash'
can run the configure scripts almost unaltered. You still need to know a
bit of Unix and the Unix shell syntax to understand the few things that do
need to be changed, though.
> I tried to manually craft the makefile, but was soon
> lost in a maze of Unixisms - what does "tr" do? Or "xargs"??!?!?!
You don't really need to understand, just get all the GNU packages from
v2gnu directory. `tr' is part of GNU Textutils, `xargs' is in Findutils.
All the other utilities used by standard Unix scripts are ready for you in
the packages in v2gnu (Fileutils, Grep, Sed, Textutils, Sh-utils,
Findutils, and the `bash' port). Just unzip them all and never look back.
And if you use Make 3.75 and create a ``symlink'' to `bash.exe' called
`sh.exe', Make will run the Makefiles produced by configure and call
`bash' where appropriate, so the Makefiles will also run unaltered!
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