From: "Damian Yerrick" <NOSP AT Musenet@pineight.8m.com>
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"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote in message
news:Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 991207121631 DOT 29709L-100000 AT is...
>
>
> The reason is that Autoconf was changed to use
> ${CONFIG_SHELL-/bin/sh}, and this will not work in the DJGPP
> environment unless you set the CONFIG_SHELL variable in the
> environment to point to the full pathname of Bash on your system.

Where can I pick up a copy of DOS Bash and Fileutils?

> Something like the following should work:
>
>   set CONFIG_SHELL=${DJDIR}/bin/bash.exe
>
> Relying on /bin/sh being always present is a Unixism.  It takes time
> to explain to GNU maintainers that some systems out there aren't
> Unix...

GNU's Not Unix either.


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