From: Adam Schrotenboer Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Newbie question Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 19:49:38 -0500 Organization: Triton Technologies, Inc Lines: 60 Message-ID: <3633C720.7F2F98C0@lycosmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: hol-ppp181.triton.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I have all the utilities you should need to build GNU pkgs, but I can never make them work. I hate to have to call myself a newbie, after having been in computers for over 7 years, but in this case (GNU GCC & DJGPP) I guess that I am. The only pkg I have ever been able to successfully build is Allegro. Any GNU pkg I try to build gives me an error of some sort. For example, I was trying (again) today to build EGCS 1.1b. I have flex, autoconf, bison, sed, bash, grep, shell utilities (I think this is it, shl112b.zip, off of simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/), file utilities, plus all the stuff necessary to write and build my own programs. The error I got was "Missing Separator (106)". I looked in the makefile, and went to line 106. The line had an extra hard return. This also occurred at other places, such as 502, and 700 something. for these I removed the hard return, but then the trouble lines went into stuff about language hooks, and no obvious place to move the line up to. What is wrong? Is the DJGPP env't too different from std Linux and Unix configs???? Am I forever to need precompiled binaries??? Waiting for somebody w/ a cross-compiler and some time and the gumption to provide binaries for me to use. I'm considering Linux, but at this time it just isn't practical. Right now I'm using PGCC 1.0.1. I know there is a 1.1, but I can't use it w/o being able to build it or finding a precompiled binary for DJGPP. And Andrew Crabtree has not built & released 1.1 yet, not that I have anything against him. I'm sorry if I sound disgruntled, but that's because I am. I've been asking questions about various build problems for a while (GNU MP, EGCS). Now I admit that before a couple of days ago, I really didn't have all the utilities I needed. But now I do. And it still doesn't work. HEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.5.3i for non-commercial use iQA/AwUBNjPHDx8/zl3sumo2EQLyOwCgirv63vWE+h+tyz/DbXPTn8jgc4MAoMoJ epHlrhIVNTYqAJP6lRBhMyT6 =3Fuj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----