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Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 18:02:17 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Weiqi Gao <weiqigao AT a DOT crl DOT com>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Gnuplot 3.7 released
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On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, Weiqi Gao wrote:

> However, when I run configure in DJGPP, I get a strange response:

Been there, done that.  The original configure scripts won't run on DJGPP 
platforms without some minor trickery.  Usually, a batch file or a shell 
script which does that trickery and then invokes ./configure is the way 
to make things configure and build for DJGPP users.  I would expect some 
README file in the source distribution to explain the necessary steps.

> checking for a BSD compatible install... ./install-sh -c

BAD idea.  set INSTALL=${DJDIR}/bin/ginstall -c before running the 
script, so that the right install program is used when you later
say "make install".

> checking for working aclocal... found
> checking for working autoconf... found
> checking for working automake... found
> checking for working autoheader... found

These are probably bogus (do you really have Automake installed?), since
the ported Bash causes parenthesized commands to always return a zero
status, even if they actually failed.  To get these tests to return a
correct result, some simple editing of the configure script is required
(remove the parens around the commands and replace them with the 
`command`-style forms). 

> checking for gcc... no
> checking for cc... no
> configure: error: no acceptable cc found in $PATH

You need to set PATH_SEPARATOR=: and PATH_EXPAND=y before running the 
script; then it will work.  The script relies heavily on the fact that 
directories in PATH are separated by colons, not semi-colons as usual on 
MS-DOS/MS-Windows.

> The DJGPP executable is available at
> ftp://ftp.gnuplot.vt.edu/pub/gnuplot.

Thanks for the info.

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