From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: indent upgrade
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 23:25:10 +0100
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Hello.

Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:
[snip]
> The original DJGPP port of autoconf had to deviate from this plan
> because configure scripts generated by stock autoconf stood no chance
> at all to work in a DJGPP environment at that time.  But AFAIK, that's
> changed in the meantime.  Nowadays, you're not even supposed to need
> autoconf unless you're a software author and actually modify
> configure.in scripts yourself, or work with CVS-checkouts instead of
> source tarballs.
[snip]

The DJGPP port of autoconf 2.57 has a few patches, but is pretty close to
stock autoconf 2.57. Tim van Holder got a lot of patches into autoconf, to
support DJGPP.

I got a couple small ones into autoconf CVS. I haven't tested autoconf CVS for
a while, so it's possible it doesn't work too well now. Tim had a couple of
patches that I haven't pushed into autoconf CVS - something to do with bison
IIRC. But autoconf CVS (as of a month or two ago) should work fine on systems
with long filenames.

So configure scripts produced with autoconf 2.57 or later on Linux/Unix should
mostly work out-of-the-box with DJGPP.

Bye, Rich =]

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