Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 17:04:51 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Darrel Hankerson <hankedr AT dms DOT auburn DOT edu>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: bash under djgpp / dosemu ?
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On Mon, 6 Jan 1997, Darrel Hankerson wrote:

>    Why do you need emx-ld?  Won't the one from DJGPP fit the bill?
> 
> Not for building emx programs :(.

Is it only because EMX needs a.out support?  Or are there any other 
reasons?

> As an aside, the latest changes to system() in
> djgpp seem to make the djgpp-version of gawk preferable (to emx+rsx)
> when using dpmi.

Btw, the version of bash that you are using (from SimTel.NET) has a bug in
here documents: it fails if the text upto EOF is longer than 512 bytes
(don't laugh!).  You can get a later version (where that bug is corrected) 
from one of these URLs:

    http://www.st.rim.or.jp/~jack/beta/index.html
    http://www.neongenesis.com/~jack/djgpp-work/beta/index.html

I was able to run GNU autoconfigure scripts with the latest version, 
after a few minor patches to the script.