From:	mazer AT lgn DOT mit DOT edu (Jamie Mazer)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	./configure workarounds?
Date:	31 Oct 1996 20:00:35 GMT
Organization:	Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology
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Does anyone have any good tricks for compiling programs distributed
with a configure script for unix under djgpp?  Ever since I started
porting the tools I frequently use from linux to DOS I've been looking
for a good way to do this.

In practice, just about everything (non-X) that I use or have written
for linux compiles successfully under djgpp/dos, but the hardest part
is always hacking the makefiles.  Usually I can run the configure
script under linux and then copy the resulting makefiles to DOS
and tweak them to get things going, but this always seems like a
kludge.  Has anyone come up with anything better??

Most importantly for me is to eventually be able to compile a completely
working version of tclsh (John Ousterhout's Tcl command shell) for DOS
from the standard source distribution without having to tweak all the
makefiles and headers by hand to get things working...

/jamie
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