Mail Archives: djgpp/2000/05/22/02:31:03
On Sun, 21 May 2000, Jason Green wrote:
> > This is because you use Fileutils compiled with DJGPP v2.01, where the
> > magic string /dev/env is not supported yet. You can rebuild Fileutils
> > from sources using DJGPP v2.03, and then you will get `mkdir' that can
> > handle /dev/env (it will still create /dev and ./env directories, but
> > that's a minor nuisance; the installation step will work regardless).
>
> Hmmm, that is what I thought. So I *did* rebuild fileutils with v2.03
> and the problem persisted.
Try the following command and tell if it created a directory `foo'
under your main DJGPP installation directory:
gmkdir /dev/env/DJDIR/foo
> The script is in my previous post in case anyone would care to take
> a look at it.
I'm well familiar with mkinstalldirs, it's a standard part of many GNU
package distributions. Unless that particular version was very old (I
admit I didn't have time to look closely at what you posted), it does
work for me with rebuilt Fileutils.
> I posted some general questions about building packages under DJGPP
> with some helpful responses but if there had been a general guide to
> this I would probably have been able to take the project further in
> the time available.
Writing up such a guide has been on my todo list forever, but I never
had enough time to make it happen. Sorry.
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