Mail Archives: djgpp/2003/06/02/12:15:15
Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:
>
> 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.
The .lineno file existed after the run, with 0 bytes. It was
running under W98. I have no intention of learning all about
everything just to port indent.
I hope somebody with the appropriate pre-knowledge will take it on
and upgrade the DJGPP port.
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