Date: Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:58:04 +0200 (IST) From: Eli Zaretskii To: Esa A E Peuha cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: Anyone running on Win95 or NT? In-Reply-To: <86ppvk0l189.fsf@vesuri.Helsinki.FI> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Precedence: bulk On 6 Mar 1998, Esa A E Peuha wrote: > Another reason why I have edited my DJGPP.ENV is that my base directory > is d:/djgpp, so some programs (like Groff and TeX) won't find their files > without setting some variables, and I rather put them in DJGPP.ENV than > in AUTOEXEC.BAT. Some packages ported to DJGPP include instructions to edit DJGPP.ENV, and Groff and TeX are among them. In these cases, you indeed should edit the environment file as instructed. > Could these programs use DJDIR to compute the default paths instead > of using hard-coded "c:/djgpp/..."? This would require a change to the way these packages handle the default pathnames. Most of the packages put the default pathnames into header files as fixed strings. There is no easy way to change this into something that will expand relative to %DJDIR% at run time, without extensive changes to the configuration process. Where such changes are relatively easy (e.g., in Make and Id-utils), they are done. > Maybe the "standard" version of DJGPP.ENV should be updated more often than > the whole DJGPP distribution. Actually I could make it available on my web > site, if that's a good idea. I'm not sure. People who change their DJGPP.ENV frequently usually know what they are doing. And those who don't might get confused by what they find on your site. But it might be worth a try.