From: 386sx AT my-deja DOT com (386sx)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Building gdb 5.0
Date: 4 Oct 2000 11:55:57 GMT
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Eli Zaretskii <djgpp AT delorie DOT com> says:

>> The readme file in gdb-5.0/gdb/config/djgpp says that I can specify a
>> build directory like so:
>> sh ./gdb/config/djgpp/djconfig.sh d:/gnu/gdb-5.0
>> but it won't let me do that from either DOS or from bash.
>> (I used sh ./gdb/config/djgpp/djconfig.sh c:/gnu/gdb-5.0). This is what
>> I get:
>> 
>> Checking the unpacked distribution... FAILED.
>
>Look into the shell script: it tests for the existance of several
>files, and if one of them does not exist, the script fails.  Tell
>me which files do not exist in your case, and I'll try to figure out
>why.

My mistake. I was thinking I could specify a directory to build _to_ from
the source directory.