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Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 10:04:14 +0000
From: Ian Miller <itmiller AT dra DOT hmg DOT gb>
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
CC: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Configure scripts
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 20 Jan 1997, Ian Miller wrote:
> 
> > I think this is a good idea provided that it is made *very* clear that
> > these packages are *required* if you want to get involved with source
> > distributions.
> 
> Would a README file which explains this be enough?

Well it would, but I was thinking that it would be better if DJ's
readme.1st
advised you that many source distributions would assume you were running
bash.

> > I am thinking of the time I first tried to compile emacs
> > only to discover that I did not just need DJGPP but versions of mv and
> > cp as well.
> 
> It doesn't need cp, only mv and rm.  But the CONFIG.BAT should check for
> these and complain if it doesn't find them.  Didn't it?

Yes CONFIG.BAT complained. That is my point. It took me two days to get
and
compile emacs, not one, because I had to run CONFIG.BAT to find out that
mv
and rm were required. (This was ages ago, BTW. I've been running my
successfully comiled copy for many months.)
-- 
Ian Miller, Dorset, UK
DJGPP 2.01, Win95 DOS box (LFN undefined, FNCASE=y)