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From: "Andris Pavenis" <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv>
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Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 21:59:42 +0200
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Subject: Re: Repost: Disgruntled DJGPP programmer, was Newbie Question
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Date sent:      	Wed, 28 Oct 1998 18:28:25 +0000 (GMT)
From:           	George Foot <george DOT foot AT merton DOT oxford DOT ac DOT uk>
Subject:        	Re: Repost: Disgruntled DJGPP programmer, was Newbie Question

> On Wed, 28 Oct 1998 ajschrotenboer AT lycosmail DOT com wrote:
> 
> > For example, I was trying (again) today to build EGCS 1.1b.
> 
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that's an alpha package
> that is not ready for general use yet.  In any case IIRC it
> requires you to use the 2.02 beta library (released yesterday).

I think it can already treated as beta and should be used together
with 2.02. I have only some known DJGPP related problems with it:

   -  there are problems with exceptions (also -fsjlj-exceptions 
      seems to be broken in egcs-1.1 at all)
   -  the problem with Novel discussed recently and fixed
      last update of DJGPP port of gcc-2.8.1 (some days ago).
      I haven't rebuilt egcs-1.1 for DJGPP since I uploaded
      archives in begin of September so perhaps it will be fixed
      when I'll do it next time.

Also:
	I did rather many source changes before building egcs-1.1
      however I included bash script that does these modifications
      in source archive of egcs-1.1 for DJGPP so no manual edditing 
      is needed.
 
> 
> > 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 necessary to set some environment variables before running 
configure script (the same about make) for such packages as gcc,
egcs and many others.
> 
> IIRC configure scripts are awkward in DOS.  DJGPP ports usually
> come preconfigured, so you shouldn't need to use the configure
> script.  In any case, I thought that a configure.bat was
> generally provided instead.

I think no one can touched configur.bat for long time so I'm afraid
it's terribly outdated and broken.

Andris