Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 09:52:04 +0200
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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> From: "Edmund Horner" <ejrh AT paradise DOT net DOT nz>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 20:09:09 +1300
> 
> Lots of larger programs come with a configure script.  What is the
> recommended method of dealing with these in DJGPP?

See any of the ported GNU packages in v2gnu/*s.zip files on
SimTel.NET, most of them use the configure script to configure the
package for DJGPP.

> I personally find them to be utterly infuriating

This hardly matters.  Use of configure scripts in all GNU (and many
non-GNU) packages is a fact; they do a very good job of transparently
supporting almost any Unix-like system out there, and with minor
tweaks work on DOS and Windows as well.

> if anyone could shed some
> light on how to set up my DJGPP installation for seamlessly running them, it
> would save me many hours of header-file-fiddling.

Download the latest Bash port and the auxiliary utilities (Fileutils,
Textutils, Grep, Sh-utils, Gawk, and some others), and your system
will be all but set up for running these scripts.  Look carefully into
the source distribution of one of the latest ports in v2gnu directory,
such as rcode35s.zip, and you will see how it is done.  Typically, a
batch file (in the `djgpp' subdirectory) is run to edit the configure
scripts a bit, then the configure script is run by Bash.  Then all you
need is to say "make" and sit back.