Mail Archives: djgpp-workers/2000/01/16/04:39:14
On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Mark E. wrote:
> A release candidate version of Bash 2.03 is now available from:
> http://snowball.frogspace.net/djgpp/
Thanks!
One comment about the binary zip: Bash now comes with an Info manual,
and we don't have an entry for it in info/DIR. So I suggest that
readme.dos tells users to run install-info, to get their DIR file
updated.
(Too bad the pretest versions didn't come with the Info manual: if
they did, I would've probably put the entry into DIR before releasing
v2.03.)
About the source zip: it failed to build for me (on Windows 98),
complaining about parse errors and whatnot. It turned out that
config.h was empty (it only has a single comment line produced by
configure).
I then wanted to configure it myself, but the readme doesn't tell what
to do in this case (reconfiguring might be required if the
distribution is compiled with a different version of library). I
tried "sh ./configure" and it worked, but I think the docs should
cover this.
Does the ported distribution support building from another directory?
If it does, I'll try that. If this isn't supported, I think the docs
should say so.
Btw, I understand that the configure script was produced by the DJGPP
port of Autoconf. If so, that port needs more work, because the
produced configure script still has some of the Unix-centric
constructs that break on DOS/Windows. For example, the test for
absolute name near ac_given_INSTALL doesn't support drive letters. (I
can post a full list of problems, if someone is interested.)
I also noticed that the build procedure invokes cmp, so Diffutils
should be mentioned in the readme as a prerequisite. At least for
reconfiguring, it will also need many other packages (Sed, Textutils,
Sh-utils, and Grep, as the minimum).
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