Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 11:55:05 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, Mark E. wrote:

> Below is the config.site I'm currently using and plan on distributing with 
> Bash 2.03. Comments, suggestions, etc. are welcome.

The real test of this would be to build several GNU packages that have
config.site in the djgpp subdirectory with your version, and see if
there are any problems.

> Note that the DOS_TEST_HACK variable only works in the very latest 
> version of Bash on my site.

What does it do?

> ac_cv_prog_LN_S="ln"

This might be dangerous.  There are cases when you *want* "ln -s" to
be used.  I don't know any easy way out of this, other than to
convince Autoconf maintainers to use 2 different variables: one for
symlinking an executable program, the other for regular files.