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Date:	Tue, 24 Jul 2001 16:13:36 +0200
From:	Tim Van Holder <tim DOT vanholder AT falconsoft DOT be>
Organization:	Anubex N.V.
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To:	"Peter J. Farley III" <pjfarley3 AT escape DOT com>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: Which config.site should be used, bash or autoconf 2.50?
References:	<3b5b44b8 DOT 11468978 AT news DOT escape DOT com>
Reply-To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com

"Peter J. Farley III" wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I just got back to updating my djgpp installation for a new source
> build (awka-0.7.5, to be precise), and dl'ed the latest bash (bsh204b)
> and autoconf (acnf250b), and these two both have a file called
> share/config.site.  There is some overlap between the two, but which
> one should be used?  I will be needing autoconf to update the source
> package to build under djgpp, but obviously bash has to work, too.

Bash does not require config.site for proper operation; it just packages
that file because it was mainly used to enable some special features of
our bash that helped run configure scripts.
You need autoconf 2.50's config.site in order to run configure scripts
generated by _our_ autoconf 2.50 (the path-searching using execuatble
extensions isn't in mainline autoconf yet).
So basically, you will probably want autoconf 2.50's config.site in
$DJDIR/share, but you will either need to regenerate all configure
scripts you want to run using autoconf 2.50 (not always easy to do, as
many 2.13 configure.in scripts rely on undocumented internal variables
and/or macros that ceased to work in 2.50), or set TEST_FINDS_EXE=y
first (otherwise, no programs will be found).
Or you can rename either one (say, have config.site and confsite.213),
and set CONFIG_SITE to point to the one you want to use.

-- 
Tim Van Holder - Anubex N.V.
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