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From: "Michael E. Wesolowski" <mewesolo AT freenet DOT calgary DOT ab DOT ca>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp,gnu.g++.help,gnu.gcc.help
Subject: building gcc 2.7.1 on DOS
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 1995 20:08:37 -0700
Organization: Calgary Free-Net
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Nntp-Posting-Host: mewesolo AT srv1 DOT freenet DOT calgary DOT ab DOT ca
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
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I've posted before on this subject and am making some progress. I am 
assuming that the directions contained within the 'install' file are 
applicable to DOS, except that I'm using djgpp directly. What I've 
accomplished so far is to 'make LANGUAGES=c' (with some tweaking - 
details available if required). The next stage is to 'make stage1' which 
copies a bunch of files to the 'stage1' directory. Unfortunately, the 
commands in teh makefile are unix based, which is where I'm having trouble.

I think that what I have to do for DOS is execute the command

for %filename in ($(files_to_move)) do move %filename stage1

where %filename might also be %%filename (according to DOS help, 
%filename is used from the command line, and %%filename from batch 
files). I've successfully executed 
variations of this command from the DOS command line, but inserting them 
in a makefile does not work (not the gcc makefile, but one I created to 
test it).

The first question is, am I on the right track? Am I performing steps 
that actually need to be performed? If so, am I executing the correct 
command to do what needs to be done? If so, what do I need to do to make 
it work? I'm trying to avoid having to manually copy these files.

It's probably worth posting replies to these newsgroups since I've 
noticed a lot of interest lately.

BTW, I'm using the version of make that comes with the original djgpp 
distribution.

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Michael Wesolowski (mewesolo AT freenet DOT calgary DOT ab DOT ca)