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> Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 00:50:55 +0200
> From: Juan Manuel Guerrero <juan DOT guerrero AT gmx DOT de>
> 
> Please note that I am not an user of emacs

Really?  Then what do you use to edit sources when you work on DJGPP?

> I was able to build it out-of-the-box on WinXP, Win2K, Win98SE and MSDOS 6.22
> with DOSLFN 0.41c.  I have used DJGPP 2.04 on all OS.

Thanks, that's great news.

> I have wrote a little "hello world" program using emacs and then I compiled it
> by calling gcc from emacs.  This also works, but it seems not possible to debug
> the program starting gdb from emacs.  I always get an error message like this:
>    Symbol's function definition is void: start-process

That is expected: the GDB front end in Emacs needs asynchronous
processes that are not supported in the DJGPP build.

> I am also a little bit surprised
> that a tool like grep seems not to work.  I get the result that grep finds no
> file containing the string, although it exists and it contains the string
> searched for.  This means that either grep is not start in the correct form or
> grep's return code is not passed to emacs, or not understood by emacs.  This is
> independent of the OS used to compile and run the binary.

This is strange: "M-x grep" does work for me here, on Windows XP.  I
used this command, after visiting a file in the Emacs's src directory:

  M-x grep <RET> DOS_NT *.c <RET>

This shows more than 100 lines of hits in the various Emacs source
files.  My Grep is quite old (v2.5.3), so maybe this is an issue only
with the new versions of Grep?  Or maybe you have run Grep in the
wrong directory (the directory is shown at the beginning of the *grep*
buffer that Emacs pops up to show the results of the search)?

> The bottom line is that I have experienced no difficulties building emacs using
> the set of programs from the /beta directory and that it is possible to compile
> it using both versions of libc.a, the one provided by djdev204 and the other
> compiled from CVS repository.  But the test is certainly not really a serious
> test.

Thanks a lot for your efforts and time.