Message-ID: <363769CD.6A9B07D1@montana.com> Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 12:00:29 -0700 From: bowman X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5b2 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: Repost: Disgruntled DJGPP programmer, was Newbie Question References: <717d46$cd6$1 AT nnrp1 DOT dejanews DOT com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com ajschrotenboer AT lycosmail DOT com wrote: > > I think it's really pitiful that they can't even make a proper makefile for > the DJGPP platform. The configure script doesn't seem to work for me. The > makefile that it creates doesn't work. Can anybody tell me what's > wrong????????????? It is hard to say without concrete examples of where the makefile is failing. The FAQ covers some problems, but this is a difficult area. For a GNU port, there is quite a bit of tweaking. If you look in the archives, there have been discussions on the difficulties of 'ln -s', the '-x' vs '-f' test, setting up the bash SHELL, as well as sed and autoconf oddities. The maintainer of a particular package may have had a script that worked satisfactorily on his machine, and no way of testing it on other platforms. I've found I can take a running script from a Win95/bash/gnu utilities box, and have it break on a straight DOS 6.22 platform. In my case, I can test DOS, Win3.11, and Win95, but can't test NT or Win98 easily. I'm sure others trying to port code are in the same fix.