Mail Archives: djgpp-workers/1998/07/27/11:21:37
Date sent: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 18:08:58 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Subject: Re: mak3769b.zip cannot works on the makefile of Allegro.
>
> > As I said there were no changes except 2 small additional shell
> > scripts. I can send them to You.
>
> In my experience, no GNU maintainer will agree to maintain DJGPP-specific
> scripts, since the script is created by Autoconf for each release.
The only function of these 2 scripts is to set some needed
environment variables (such as 'CONFIG_SHELL=bash' and some
others) and invoking ./configure and make when this is done.
One can do this manually (but then a possibility of errors is much
higher)
So there is no need for any maintainance (maybe only when there
is very significant changes in corresponding package, but I think
it's rather rare situation).
> What is needed is a way to automatically edit configure so that it runs
> on DJGPP platforms. I am slowly doing that for every package that I'm
> involved with, but it takes time.
I think adding such 2 scripts is much faster as usually there is no
more need to edit configure script at all (maybe sometimes only to
rebuild it with DJGPP port of autoconf). For me it took about 15
minutes to build make-3.76.94 and get it working.
Andris
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