Message-ID: <3EDB680B.9CCD0841@yahoo.com> From: CBFalconer Organization: Ched Research X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: indent upgrade References: <3EDB22ED DOT 188CC8A3 AT yahoo DOT com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 40 Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2003 16:00:25 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.90.170.235 X-Complaints-To: abuse AT worldnet DOT att DOT net X-Trace: bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 1054569625 12.90.170.235 (Mon, 02 Jun 2003 16:00:25 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2003 16:00:25 GMT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote: > > CBFalconer wrote: > > > So I got indent.2.2.9.tar.gz from gnu, opened it up, moved to the > > src subdir, ran bash, and entered "../configure". This ran for at > > least 1.5 hours (I went to bed) and ended up announcing something > > close to "can't create .lineno, use a POSIX shell". > > > All this on my 486/80 machine. (I have been threatening to get > > another for several years) Don't laugh, it does just fine for > > most things. > > The hardware is probably not the problem here, it's the software. If > it's actually expecting to create a file ".lineno" (I only ever saw it > write "configure.lineno", though), that's doomed to utter failure on a > raw DOS box. This will need Win95 at the least to work, because of > the 8+3 limitations being violated. > > This is .lineno stuff is one of the more recent changes in autoconf. > They're trying to avoid having literal line numbers in the 'configure' > script itself, to keep diffs of it within sanity limits. > configure.lineno is a copy with line numbers substituted in. > > Re-building the configure script with an older version of autoconf > ported to DJGPP might fix this. The .lineno file existed after the run, with 0 bytes. It was running under W98. I have no intention of learning all about everything just to port indent. I hope somebody with the appropriate pre-knowledge will take it on and upgrade the DJGPP port. -- Chuck F (cbfalconer AT yahoo DOT com) (cbfalconer AT worldnet DOT att DOT net) Available for consulting/temporary embedded and systems. USE worldnet address!