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From: Robert Hoehne <robert DOT hoehne AT gmx DOT net>
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Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 21:30:59 +0200
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Subject: Re: gdb 4.18 for DJGPP (alpha)
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>  - The comments in djconfig.sh seem to imply that building the package
>    from another drive doesn't work (I didn't try that myself).  If
>    this is true, it means that it's impossible to build the package

This is true, and currently I see no workarround for it. The main
problem is, that the configure script parses for instance the
CONFIG_HEADERS variable, which might look like

CONFIG_HEADERS=config.h:config.in

If you configure now on an other drive, configure inserts
the source directory in this filename ($srcdir/config.in)
and then it sed's the ':'. But now the $srcdir has also a
colon! To change this it would be needed to make changes
to autoconf which I haven't the time.

>  - Contrary to what djconfig.sh says, I didn't have any problems with
>    "ln -s" which required to copy cp.exe to ln.exe.  With Bash 1.14.7

I'll recheck it.

>  - I think it might be a good idea to have a separate zip file with
>    the rest of the files from GDB distribution that aren't included in
>    gdb418s.zip.  Somebody who wants to add a new feature might want to
>    look at the other files for implementation ideas and other relevant
>    info, and fetching the official distribution from a GNU site is
>    tedious and error-prone (since you need to figure out which files
>    to overwrite).
> 
>  - You might also consider generating diffs against the original GNU
>    distribution and including it in gdb418s.zip.  I have found such
>    diffs very useful while porting a new release in several cases.

It is there already and named patches.418 ! Having this I think it
is not neccesary to have a separate zip with the missing original
gdb sources.

Robert

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