Date:	Sun, 19 Jan 1997 19:03:12 -0500
Message-Id:	<199701200003.TAA07741@delorie.com>
From:	DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
To:	eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il
CC:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
In-reply-to:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.970119174750.23317H-100000@is> (message from Eli
	Zaretskii on Sun, 19 Jan 1997 17:54:07 +0200 (IST))
Subject:	Re: Configure scripts

> Since the port of `bash' can run configure scripts almost unchanged, I
> wonder if it is appropriate to base DJGPP source distributions on the
> assumption that people who build from sources have `bash' and the
> necessary XXX-utils installed.  It certainly makes the porting a lot
> easier (I estimate that as much as 30% of the work goes into tweaking
> Makefile.in into DOS-compatible Makefile, especially since it diverts 
> energy from the *real* job). 

I think if you do the work of porting the package, you should get the
priviledge of choosing which other (free) programs you must have to
build it, within reason.

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