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Subject: Re: Bash 2.03 prerelease now available
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Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 14:27:01 -0500 (EST)
From: "Alain Magloire" <alain AT qnx DOT com>
In-Reply-To: <388208F5.9D20B750@softhome.net> from "Laurynas Biveinis" at Jan 16, 2000 08:07:49 PM
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> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Btw, I understand that the configure script was produced by the DJGPP
> > port of Autoconf.  If so, that port needs more work, because the
> > produced configure script still has some of the Unix-centric
> > constructs that break on DOS/Windows.  For example, the test for
> > absolute name near ac_given_INSTALL doesn't support drive letters.  (I
> > can post a full list of problems, if someone is interested.)
> 
> I would be interested, because my first step in porting any autoconf'ed
> program to DJGPP is regenerating configure script.

Then you should also look at automake, since it contains, autoconf
macros.
The latest version of GNU grep comes with two Patches,
PATCHES.A{C,M}, this are collection of patches base on a long
email exchange with Eli and Francois Pinard, when porting GNU grep.

I would not mind to nuke them, if auto{conf,make} could be make
to also work on DJGPP.

FWIW, the patches were send to the autoconf list.  But I did not
have time to follow up on it.


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au revoir, alain
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