From:	Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject:	Re: indent upgrade
Date:	2 Jun 2003 11:40:12 GMT
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CBFalconer <cbfalconer AT yahoo DOT com> wrote:

> So I got indent.2.2.9.tar.gz from gnu, opened it up, moved to the
> src subdir, ran bash, and entered "../configure".  This ran for at
> least 1.5 hours (I went to bed) and ended up announcing something
> close to "can't create .lineno, use a POSIX shell".

> All this on my 486/80 machine.  (I have been threatening to get
> another for several years)  Don't laugh, it does just fine for
> most things.  

The hardware is probably not the problem here, it's the software.  If
it's actually expecting to create a file ".lineno" (I only ever saw it
write "configure.lineno", though), that's doomed to utter failure on a
raw DOS box.  This will need Win95 at the least to work, because of
the 8+3 limitations being violated.

This is .lineno stuff is one of the more recent changes in autoconf.
They're trying to avoid having literal line numbers in the 'configure'
script itself, to keep diffs of it within sanity limits.
configure.lineno is a copy with line numbers substituted in.

Re-building the configure script with an older version of autoconf
ported to DJGPP might fix this.
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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.

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