From: pjfarley AT dorsai DOT org (Peter J. Farley III)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Rebuilding gcc - "make install", "configur.bat" both  fail
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 1997 02:55:56 GMT
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Ivo Janssen <ivo AT ricardis DOT tudelft DOT nl> wrote:
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>Well, first of all, configure.bat sucks, use the unix-style configure
>Therefore you have to install bash from DJGPP and make sure it can be
>found (i just put it in \bin\sh.exe, just like unix...)
>Then you do "c>bash" and "$ ./configure"
>Now you will get the usual configure, including the generation of
>config.status.
>O, also install sed and grep and fileutil, you'll probably need them.
>All can be found on the djgpp ftp-site

Agreed, if the DJGPP zip had long file names, which it does not.

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>Well, this one's in the FAQ (don't feel ashamed, I asked the same
>question 8 weeks ago :-) ). Look in <djgpp_root>/djgpp.env
>Third line says: LFN=n
>Well, make it LFN=y

Been there, done that.  Makes the bat files choke.  Not that I want to
use them, I agree with you in principle.

>Bottom line: Use unix-style things, not .bat's. They suck.
>Besides, the whole point of DJGPP is bringing Unix-gnu tools to DOS!

Ivo,

I agree with you.  But the source as distributed is also geared to
non-LFN environments, as it should be.  Makes it a little more
difficult on those of us with LFN=y environments.  There's a middle
ground, but we need to refine it, I think.

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