Date:	Sun, 5 Aug 2001 10:18:56 +0300 (IDT)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To:	Andrew Cottrell <acottrel AT ihug DOT com DOT au>
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Subject:	Re: DJGPP Grep config query
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On Sun, 5 Aug 2001, Andrew Cottrell wrote:

> checking host system type... configure: error: can not guess host type; you
> must specify one
> ./configure script exited abnormally!
> 
> I get the same error on my Win98 box, but aclocal, autoconf, automake,
> makeinfo are found as I have perl installed. This is not stopping my testing
> on Win2K.

Please look into the reason for this failure.  I suspect some change
(or maybe a bug) in Bash caused that.  It worked for me on both plain
MS-DOS and Windows 9X.

> Does this mean that I will find other packages with a similar problem?

Probably.

> Is the real problem that when the packages were first built there
> was no support for the configure scripts and now there is?

No, every port whose config.bat runs the configure script was built by
running the configure script.  So it used to work.

And, just for kicks, I've tried to configure and build Grep 2.4 on my
Windows 98 SE machine, and saw no such error message.  Everything
configured and built cleanly, and passed all tests in the test suite.
This is with Bash 2.04 whose binary was built on January 10, 2001.

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