Mail Archives: djgpp/2000/07/04/21:17:21
I started to rebuild from sources on my hard disk those distributions
for which the recent large upload did not include patched sources. With
"flx254s.zip" I was surprised to find that the build failed when running
in a DOS box (LFN enabled) under Windows98. I thought maybe the sources
had been changed. The sources in .../v2gnu (Dec 1997) were about nine
months later than the ones I have so I downloaded. This is not
recommended. The differences are trivial and the earlier file had a
more imaginative use of upper case letters.
Only in flex-2.5-4: config.status
diff -brU 2 flex-2.54a/misc/msdos/configur.bat
flex-2.5-4/misc/msdos/configur.bat
--- flex-2.54a/misc/msdos/configur.bat Mon Mar 24 11:56:22 1997
+++ flex-2.5-4/misc/msdos/configur.bat Tue Dec 9 14:12:52 1997
@@ -3,2 +3,3 @@
sed -f MISC/MSDOS/djgpp.sed Makefile.in > Makefile
update MISC/MSDOS/config.h config.h
+touch config.status
`config.status' can be generated by running the configure script.
The failure of the build process with LFN enabled is because an
intermediate file `y.tab.c' is generated while the supplied Makefile
expects to see `y_tab.c'. Expect to use the supplied source under
plain DOS or when LFN are disabled. Below is a patch to the instructions.
Regards,
Frank
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--- gnu/flex-2.5-4/MISC/MSDOS/README~ Tue Mar 25 15:40:34 1997
+++ gnu/flex-2.5-4/MISC/MSDOS/README Tue Jul 4 19:07:46 2000
@@ -30,7 +30,23 @@
misc\msdos\configur.bat
+
+ The distribution "flx254s.zip" is preconfigured for djgpp so the
+ above line is not needed with a fresh source tree. However make
+ failed trying to rebuild for djgpp 2.0.3 using binutils 2.10 with
+ LFN under Windows98. The problem is that an intermediate file
+ `y.tab.c' is built while the makefile expects to find `y_tab.c'.
+ Result - fatal error! For plain DOS or "LFN=n" disregard these
+ changes. What will work with "LFN=y" is:
+
+ make distclean
+ sh configure --prefix=/dev/env/DJDIR --host=i386-pc-msdosdjgpp
+ cp -f misc/msdos/config.h .
+
+ Edit Makefile, change CFLAGS from "-g -O" to "-g -O2", add -DMS_DOS
+ to DEFS, and change INSTALLMAN from man to cat. Then run:
+
make
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