Date: Wed, 1 Jan 1997 08:28:31 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "Alaric B. Williams" <alaric AT abwillms DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: GUILE port?
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On Tue, 31 Dec 1996, Alaric B. Williams wrote:

> Has anyone ever ported GUILE to DOS? 

Try searching the mail archives, I think I saw an announcement some time 
ago about such a port.

> I dled it, but what did I find staring me in the face? A configure
> script. Sigh.

Failing the above search, you should know that the DJGPP port of `bash'
can run the configure scripts almost unaltered.  You still need to know a
bit of Unix and the Unix shell syntax to understand the few things that do
need to be changed, though. 

> I tried to manually craft the makefile, but was soon
> lost in a maze of Unixisms - what does "tr" do? Or "xargs"??!?!?!

You don't really need to understand, just get all the GNU packages from
v2gnu directory.  `tr' is part of GNU Textutils, `xargs' is in Findutils. 
All the other utilities used by standard Unix scripts are ready for you in
the packages in v2gnu (Fileutils, Grep, Sed, Textutils, Sh-utils,
Findutils, and the `bash' port).  Just unzip them all and never look back.
And if you use Make 3.75 and create a ``symlink'' to `bash.exe' called 
`sh.exe', Make will run the Makefiles produced by configure and call 
`bash' where appropriate, so the Makefiles will also run unaltered!