Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 12:20:23 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Chris Croughton <crough45 AT amc DOT de>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: GNU Hello 1.3 uploaded to SimTel.NET
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On Tue, 1 Apr 1997, Chris Croughton wrote:

> What a good idea!  A small example of a distribution is
> what I've been wanting; it was obvious that there is a
> 'standard' method (is it documented anywhere?  I can't
> find it in the FAQ, so perhaps it's an IFQ, Infrequently
> Asked Question).

It's just a non-DJGPP question, that's all.  The GNU standards are 
described in the document called `standards.info'; you can get from 
one of the GNU ftp sites, in the standards/ directory.

> up my C drive at an alarming rate.  A lot of times I'd like
> to build on a differnt drive and keep the c:/djgpp directory
> 'clean' (particularly when rebuilding something as commonly
> used as libc.a), but I haven't seen a way to do it apart 
> from copying the whole directory tree to the other drive.

I don't see any problems with that.  In fact, one of the machines where I
work on these ports has its gnu/ subtree on drive d:, whereas DJGPP is
installed on c:.  What you need is just unzip a package that you need to
build on the other drive, but there should be nothing in the source
distribution that requires, say, gnu/hello-1.3 be a subdirectory of
%DJDIR%.  If you see any problems with that, please describe them.  I
usually make a point of specifically testing that the package builds even
in another directory. 

> As of 08:20 UT today neither had appeared on Trier (the
> fastest Simtel.Net mirror for me), although both are
> on Simtel.Net - I suspect that the holidays (Easter Friday

I just ftp to a US mirror early in the morning, when North America is 
asleep.  The link is very fast then.