Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 11:01:38 +0200 (WET) From: Andris Pavenis To: Weiqi Gao cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Gnuplot 3.7 released In-Reply-To: <36ABC177.4A1757C3@a.crl.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, Weiqi Gao wrote: > Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > > On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, Weiqi Gao wrote: > > > > > However, when I run configure in DJGPP, I get a strange response: > > > > Been there, done that. The original configure scripts won't run on DJGPP > > platforms without some minor trickery. Usually, a batch file or a shell > > script which does that trickery and then invokes ./configure is the way > > to make things configure and build for DJGPP users. I would expect some > > README file in the source distribution to explain the necessary steps I wrote shell script djconfig.sh that is included in source distribution of GNUPLOT-3.7 and also mentioned in file 0install. It was very recent addition but short instructions are included. > One such file is indeed thoughtfully included in the source > distribution. It's called djconfig.sh. It helped the configure script > run to its completion. There's another file called makefile.dj2, which > is meant to be run with a plain "make -f makefile.dj2". > > Neither method allowed me to create the executable (Make errored out). > But I'm content in running the binaries I donwloaded. > I haven't met problems to build it using DJGPP-2.02 both with and without LFN support I have tried './djconfig.sh' with following 'make' in - DOS session under Win95 with LFN support - plain DOS (without LFN of course) - DOSEMU-0.99.5 under Linux-2.2.0-pre* I haven't met problems to build GNUPLOT-3.7. Today I tried also DJGPP-2.01 (I wrote running installation on CD slightly more than half a year ago) in DOSEMU-0.99.5 running under Linux-2.2.0-final (no LFN support). I met no problems. Andris