Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 11:18:27 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Paul Moore <gustav AT morpheus DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Bash 2.01
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On Mon, 9 Jun 1997, Paul Moore wrote:

> Has Bash 2.01 been ported to djgpp yet?

AFAIK, no.  Daisuke Aoyama, who ported Bash 1.14.7, is still
maintaining that version (the last beta was announced a couple of days
ago).

> I had a quick look at the
> sources, but they use configure scripts and autoconf stuff, which I
> don't know how to start with...

Actually, if you get Bash and the auxiliary utilities, you can run the
configure script almost unaltered.  I have been doing this for the
last 1/2 a year for various GNU packages.  Take a look at the source
distributions for the latest ports of GNU packages in v2gnu, for
examples of this.

However, please note that porting Bash is much more than running
configure and Make.  The amount of DOS- and DJGPP-specific code added
to the current port is quite large.  You might consider fetching the
diffs zip and applying them to 2.01 as a starting point.