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From:	Prashant Ramachandra <rprash AT wilco-int DOT com>
To:	"'djgpp AT delorie DOT com'" <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject:	RE: configure scripts
Date:	Sat, 11 Nov 2000 13:15:59 +0530
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On Saturday, November 11, 2000 12:39 PM, Edmund Horner
[SMTP:ejrh AT paradise DOT net DOT nz] wrote:
| Lots of larger programs come with a configure script.  What is the
| recommended method of dealing with these in DJGPP?

You could use the DJGPP port of bash (v2gnu/bsh*b.zip). That should
save you lots of this. Thanks to Mark E, who ported it. Apart from that
you might also need Fileutils and Sh-utils (vgnu/fil*b.zip and
v2gnu/shl*.zip).
Installing Textutils (v2gnu/txt*b.zip) would also be a good idea.
| 
| I personally find them to be utterly infuriating: if anyone could
| shed some
| light on how to set up my DJGPP installation for seamlessly running
| them, it
| would save me many hours of header-file-fiddling.

I'd recommend you to run the configure script under Win 9x where LFN is
supported. Otherwise, it can be a pain. You'll have to write scripts to
modify
the configure script itself (but that's how most of the people do it when
they
port packages).

Hope this helps.

Prashant
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