From:	snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com (Mark E.)
To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: [ANNOUNCE] DJGPP port of GNU Autoconf 2.13 update 2
Date:	Thu, 01 Jul 1999 15:42:47 GMT
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On Thu, 1 Jul 1999 18:00:31 +0300 (IDT), you wrote:

>But you were intending to make the separator be : by default, and all 
>ported packages that need this already set PATH_SEPARATOR=:.  It seems to 
>me that this solves the problem reliably enough to not bother the official
>GNU distribution with DJGPP-specific changes.

I haven't submitted any of the DJGPP specific changes. test -x vs test -f
is supposed to be taken care of in the next release of Autoconf, so that
thorn will be going away.

>
>Only my opinion, of course.

And it turns out we happen to agree.

One idea I have for a new update that I'd like comments on would be to
include a config.site as described in the Autoconf docs. That script could
set PATH_SEPARATOR to ':' (just in case someone changes the default), then
do stuff like this:

if test -x ${DJDIR}/gcc.exe; then
  export CC=${DJDIR}/gcc.exe
fi

if test -x ${DJDIR}/gpp.exe; then
  export CXX=${DJDIR}/gpp.exe
fi

etc.

to get around the 'test -f' problem and allow configure scripts to work
without regenerating then.

The script would go into $DJDIR/share. Then define CONFIG_SITE in the
[bash] and [sh] sections in djgpp.env so the file can be read without
having to use --prefix.

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Mark E.: snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com
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