Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/04/01/05:55:16
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> It's just a non-DJGPP question, that's all. The GNU standards are
> described in the document called `standards.info'; you can get from
> one of the GNU ftp sites, in the standards/ directory.
Ah, I didn't realise it was a GNU standard. The GNU programs I've
downloaded and built on Unix don't seem to have much consistency
between them - not all of them even have a 'configure' script to
select which compiler to use, and the directory structure seems
to be fairly random. The DJGPP ones, on the other hand, seem to
be much more consistent.
> I don't see any problems with that. In fact, one of the machines where I
> work on these ports has its gnu/ subtree on drive d:, whereas DJGPP is
> installed on c:. What you need is just unzip a package that you need to
> build on the other drive, but there should be nothing in the source
> distribution that requires, say, gnu/hello-1.3 be a subdirectory of
> %DJDIR%. If you see any problems with that, please describe them. I
> usually make a point of specifically testing that the package builds even
> in another directory.
The only one I remember offhand was libc, that explicitly uses include
files from ../../include and puts its libraries in ../../lib. I'll
have a try with some of the others when I get home this evening.
> I just ftp to a US mirror early in the morning, when North America is
> asleep. The link is very fast then.
Where's that from? My link from work (we refer to it as a "piece of wet
string"!) objects to a lot of sites, some even the German ones. Trier
is
good, ftp.coast.net (the original Simtel stuff) is reasonable,
wcarchive.cdrom.com is reasonable; ftp.simtel.net and most other NA and
UK sites are bad. Sometimes it refuses to admit that a whole top-level
domain even exists - it did that a few weeks ago with all the .uk
sites...
(Oh, to me 'reasonable' means over 1K per second - from Trier I can
sometimes get 6K per second. I realise that by the standards of most
university links this is a crawl...)
But I suspect that, as with the dancing bear, the surprise is "not how
well it dances but that it dances at all"...
Chris
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