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Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 23:14:29 +0000
From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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To: Ian Miller <Ian AT shelob DOT plus DOT com>
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Subject: Re: shl20js.zip does not appear to be preconfigured
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Hello.

Ian Miller wrote:
[snip]
> If I try to configure by running djgpp\config, this is what happens:
> 
> > C:\djgpp\gnu\sh-util2.0j>djgpp\config.bat
> > Configuring GNU Sh-utils for DJGPP v2.x...
> > Updating configuration scripts...
> > File `configure.orig' created
> > Running the ./configure script...
> > loading site script ./djgpp/config.site
> > checking build system type... configure: error: cannot guess build type;
> > you must specify one
> > ./configure script exited abnormally!
> 
> so that doesn't get me far either.

Hmmm, that's odd.
 
> Going now into bash (2.04) and running configure by hand like so:
> 
> ./configure --build=i586-pc-msdosdjgpp

Maybe you should modify djgpp\config.bat to pass this --build option to
configure? I don't think configuring and then building with plain ol'
configure will work, because config.bat does all sorts of magic things to the
configure script, Makefiles, such as...

[snip] 
> If I copy m4/jm1-winsz1.m4 to m4/jm-winsz1.m4 make finally
> starts compiling source code, but if that's the right thing to do
> I'm very surprised.
[snip]

...changing references to m4/jm-winsz1.m4 to m4/jm1-winsz1.m4. (Just guessing,
I don't know.) Try looking at the sed files in the djgpp directory off the
sources.

Well, I hope that's some use. Bye,

-- 
Richard Dawe [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ]