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   Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 12:51:40 +0200
   From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>

	In any case, I think that the DJGPP source distribution should
	come with the files under `tests/' already edited and converted
	to the DOS-style CRLF EOL format (where appropriate).  (If you
	decide to accept this advice, you need to take into consideration
	that someone might run config.bat again, so the conversion Sed
	scripts should be prepared for multiple editing.)

Yes, it actually does. It checks for *.orig files and always runs
"sed" on them. The only problem here is that the *.orig will have to
be distributed which increase the package size a bit.

     5) A note: since `true' and `false' are now programs, you need to
	make sure shl20b.dsm includes commands to uninstall the old shell
	scripts by those names before installing the binaries.

Ok, but what do I need to do for this one? In other words, what are
the lines to be added in the DSM?

     6) Finally, it looks like the DJGPP source distribution will require
	to run the configure script before building.  If that is true,
	I'd like to suggest to make any reasonable effort so that the
	sources could come already configured.  AFAIK, every other ported
	package does that; we should try not to require users to have all
	those additional utilities installed just to rebuild a package.

I uploaded a configured package last time, without any problems. It's
in v2gnu/beta/shl20is.zip. I haven't tried that with the new one, but
I'll do it when I find more time. The foremost thing in my mind is to
have DJGPP support added so that Sh-utils can be built "out of the
box".

  Prash