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From: "Andrew Cottrell" <acottrel AT ihug DOT com DOT au>
To: <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
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Subject: Re: grep-2.51 build failure
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 18:48:40 +1100
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> > Why are you running autogen.sh? Doesn't grep 2.5.1 ship with
Makefile.ins
> > and configure? AFAIK autogen.sh is used with CVS check-outs, to get
started.
> > Perhaps you are regenerating configure, to get better DJGPP support?
> [snip]
>
> OK, now I have the sources. It says you have to run autogen.sh. I don't
think
> this will work very well, unless you have exactly the same versions of
> autoconf and automake as the developers. Unfortunately we don't have much
> choice with DJGPP, since we only have a couple of ports of automake &
> autoconf.
>
> Is grep 2.5.1 a CVS snapshot?
No it was a release that I got a long while ago from the fsf ftp site as a
tarball.

> BTW the package on the 2.04 testing page is completely broken, because it
does
> not include some important files like "missing", "depcomp", "install-sh",
etc.
Looks like I didn't include the relevant files.

I have updated the source file. I found quite allot of missing files and
have added them.

I still need to apply Eli's patch he posted last year.

Andrew