Date:	Fri, 29 Jun 2001 22:00:21 +0300
From:	"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject:	Re: building GCC 3.0 with DJGPP
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> From: "Tom St Denis" <tomstdenis AT yahoo DOT com>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 17:26:29 GMT
> 
> bash-2.04$ configure
> Configuring for a i386-pc-msdosdjgpp host.
> ./configure: touch: command not found
> ./move-if-change: mv: command not found
> *** cannot find move-if-change.
> 
> Arrg... sorry, but I must say even for a free package DJGPP is poorly put
> together.

Did you read the file DJGPP-specific README file in the GCC
distribution before building?  It clearly lists all the packages
required to build GCC from sources.  Likewise, the DJGPP FAQ says what
packages would someone need to build GNU packages and run Unix shell
scripts.  Reading that would spare you some trouble.

> There should be a "really big current zip file" of all the DJGPP tools you
> would ever need [related to GCC like they do for linux].  Instead of hosting
> 3 million copies of sed, binutils, etc... sorry to say 99% of all users will
> want the current stuff and only get older stuff in odd situations.

Your assumption is wrong: most users do _not_ want the humongous
distribution.  For starters, as someone already said, updating one
package would then require to download the mega-package each time.
Each package is ported by a different individual, so building one
large one would be complicated and inconvenient.  If you want all of
them, simple download and install all of the v2gnu directory.

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