X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f From: Radical NetSurfer Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Autoconf tutorial Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 11:57:27 -0500 Message-ID: X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English (American) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Velocity.Net Cache-Post-Path: web.velocity.net!unknown AT 66-211-206-105 DOT velocity DOT net X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Lines: 26 X-Complaints-To: abuse AT newshosting DOT com To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Someone suggested that the reason why Autoconf/autom4te fails has to do with a minor bug in the DJGPP Perl package; and these people also claim to have the "fix" that corrects the peculiar stalling / hanging problem... Still, I have yet to see anyone post that patch/correction any where. What would also be nice is if someone would please take the time to sit down and write out a nice little tutorial, step by step, of how to use Autoconf/autom4te. Theres documentation that comes with it sure, but it would be nice to have a "how to" or "introduction to" with details such as what djgpp-packages are needed to properly implement autoconf, which versions are highly recommended, and downloaded from specifically which ftp site, etc. Then everybody will be "on the same page" as it were. And we can all discover how these new tools are supposed to work. Once such a tutorial is posted, and other people are able to duplicate success with Autoconf, that tutorial can be expanded upon and updated as time goes on, hopefully, to include any other updates to this package, contributions to the same document by various authors, in true gnu / djgpp style.