From: Jason Green <news AT jgreen4 DOT fsnet DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Question about running configure script
Date: Tue, 02 May 2000 23:41:08 +0100
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Prashant TR <prashant_tr AT yahoo DOT com> wrote:

> > 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.
> 
> I suggest that you go through the DJGPP port of some large package like
> textutils, and you can see how things are done.

Thanks (and sorry for the late reply). I downloaded txt20s.zip, but it
is not obvious to me what to look at to "see how things are done". ;)

Please can you elaborate on how the textutils package can help?

The MESA library build was just cool, thanks to the ports of bash &
utilities, but I would still like to learn more about this.

Is there any such thing as a Porting to DJGPP HOWTO?