X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mailnull set sender to djgpp-workers-bounces using -f Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2002 14:21:18 +0300 (IDT) From: Eli Zaretskii X-Sender: eliz AT is To: Andrew Cottrell cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: Building Grep 2.5.1 In-Reply-To: <001901c1ddd4$9b4266f0$0102a8c0@acceleron> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, Andrew Cottrell wrote: > The problems I found in the original code were:- > a) Had to add target and host types to the configure line:- > > ./configure --src=%XSRC% --disable-nls --target=i586-pc-msdosdjgpp --host=i5 > 86-pc-msdosdjgpp > b) On most occasions had to run the config.bat twice as it run out of > environmrnt space and I couldn't see where I believe these problems don't exist with the configuration files I used. Would you like me to send them to you, so you could try to build Grep 2.5.1 with them? > It was my understanding that when Grep was originally ported there was no > Autoconf and Automake, but there is now and this is what the standrd GNU > build uses so we don't we use the same method. If people are going to > rebuild the tools then it is not unreasonable IMHO that they have these two > packages. It's not unreasonable, but if we could avoid requesting them, it's IMHO better. > This would hopefully also eliminate (my be a dream) the problems > where the config.bat and other files need to be modified whenever a breakage > occurs as the majority of the GNU packjages are built with Autconf and > Automake. I don't think this eliminates the problem, just moves it elsewhere: instead of tracking changes in config.bat and config.sed, we have to track them in the ports of Autoconf and Automake. I'm not sure what's better; it certainly takes less effort to modify 2 short files, at least for me.