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From: "Andrew Cottrell" <acottrel AT ihug DOT com DOT au>
To: <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: GNU Grep alpha release 2.5e
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 22:30:24 +1100
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Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com

Instead of trying to figure out why Grep 2.4 would not build out of the box
on my PC, host type could not be guessed,  I thought I would spend the time
in porting the latest version. The latest version available from the GNU
site is an alpha version, 2.5e.

It almost built out of the box. The configure process defined HAVE_LIBPCRE
as 1 in config.h file, otherwise it built from the GNU souces using the
stanard 'sh configure' then 'make' process.

I have uploaded the binary and source files (including unchecked DSM files)
to ftp://clio.rice.edu/djgpp/ . These files are not available from the html
page as I need to fix the HAVE_LIBPCRE first. I have ran a quick 5 minute
test and grep worked.

I have a few questions about this:-
    1) Should I delete the redundant files in the DJGP directory?
    2) Should I move the djgpp\readme file to the main grep directory and
rename it to readme.dos?
    3) Is there any problem as "releasing" this as an alpha release for
DJGPP? By releaseing I mean put it on the main html page at clio and put the
sources and binary files to the incoming directory at delorie.com? (I need
to build a 2.03+ DJGPP setup on my Win 98 PC before I can produce the binary
files to send )
    4) Are important are the documentation zip files?

I will investigate the HAVE_LIBPCRE issue.

Regards,
Andrew