From: Jason Green <news AT jgreen4 DOT fsnet DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: Question about running configure script
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Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de> wrote:

> Seen from the outside, it *is* that simple. Most of the time. The
> complexity lies in the work of Eli Zaretskii and other tireless
> workers that ported all those wonderful GNU programs to DOS so
> perfectly that many things do work as seamlessly as they do.

May I add, many thanks to all those people.  Your efforts really are
most appreciated.

> There is a pitfall waiting for you, though: 'configure' scripts
> generated by most (all?) versions of GNU autoconf don't work on DOS
> unchanged, despite all heroic efforts. You may want to try the ported
> DJGPP 'autoconf' and 'm4' to regenerate the 'configure' script from
> 'configure.in', to fix that, or you need quite a bit of knowledge
> about Unix shell programming to work your way around those pitfalls,
> manually.

Is it usually obvious if the configure script has failed, or does it
break quietly?

I am trying to build MESA 3.1 and have had a few problems, the
configure seemed to go ok but the make failed.  I have installed a
couple more packages that were needed and will try again from scratch,
but would be interested in any tips for running configure under DJGPP.

This is the list of packages I have installed (not all for MESA), I
hope this is of some use to the OP:

acnf213b.zip
bsh203b.zip
fil316b.zip
find41b.zip
grep24b.zip
gwk304b.zip
m4-14b.zip
sed302b.zip
shl112b.zip
txt20b.zip

Are there any others that would normally be required?