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Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2002 21:23:50 +0300
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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CC: "Andrew Cottrell" <acottrel AT ihug DOT com DOT au>
Subject: Building Grep 2.5.1
Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com

I downloaded today the Grep 2.5.1 pretest, and saw that the djgpp/
subdirectory was removed from the distribution.  README.DOS now
suggests to run the autogen script, before running `configure'.  This
has a disadvantage: users need to have Autoconf and Automake
installed, since autogen runs them;

Andrew, from the ChangeLog entries it seems like these changes were
made at your request.  If that's true, can you tell why these changes
are a good idea?  Is anything wrong with the usual approach of editing
`configure' with Sed, and then running the edited script?

I tend to ask the current maintainer to populate the djgpp/ directory
with (suitably updated) config.bat, config.sed and config.site (I
already have those files, since I just built Grep on my machine using
them).  However, perhaps I'm missing some factor that led you to
remove the djgpp/* files; please advise.

(Btw, while at that, I added support for the new --color option; code
lifted with minor changes from the ported `ls'.)