From:	alaric AT abwillms DOT demon DOT co DOT uk (Alaric B. Williams)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: GUILE port?
Date:	Sat, 04 Jan 1997 02:34:17 GMT
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:

>Try searching the mail archives, I think I saw an announcement some time 
>ago about such a port.

I will do that...

>> I dled it, but what did I find staring me in the face? A configure
>> script. Sigh.

>Failing the above search, you should know that the DJGPP port of `bash'
>can run the configure scripts almost unaltered.  You still need to know a
>bit of Unix and the Unix shell syntax to understand the few things that do
>need to be changed, though. 

I know a /bit/. It's the specifics I lack! Unlike my namesake Alaric
Daley, which is real freaky - Hi Alaric ;-)

>> I tried to manually craft the makefile, but was soon
>> lost in a maze of Unixisms - what does "tr" do? Or "xargs"??!?!?!

>You don't really need to understand,

Just obey Big Brother :-)

> just get all the GNU packages from v2gnu directory. 
> `tr' is part of GNU Textutils, `xargs' is in Findutils. 
>All the other utilities used by standard Unix scripts are ready for you in
>the packages in v2gnu (Fileutils, Grep, Sed, Textutils, Sh-utils,
>Findutils, and the `bash' port).  Just unzip them all and never look back.
>And if you use Make 3.75 and create a ``symlink'' to `bash.exe' called 
>`sh.exe', Make will run the Makefiles produced by configure and call 
>`bash' where appropriate, so the Makefiles will also run unaltered!

Well I did all that! It /nearly/ works. Where/what the $&"^%$£ is
"tsort"? configure tries to run it and fails, there are a few lines of
the form:

all_subdirs=`cat $srcdir/*/PLUGIN/REQ $srcdir/*/PLUGIN/OPT /dev/null |
tsort | xargs echo`

(just all on one line)

which produce things like (the full output of running "bash
configur"):

loading cache ./config.cache
D:/DJGPP/BIN/cat.exe: ./*/PLUGIN/REQ: No such file or directory
(ENOENT)
D:/DJGPP/BIN/cat.exe: ./*/PLUGIN/OPT: No such file or directory
(ENOENT)
configur: tsort: command not found
D:/DJGPP/BIN/cat.exe: ./*/PLUGIN/REQ: No such file or directory
(ENOENT)
configur: tsort: command not found
D:/DJGPP/BIN/cat.exe: ./*/PLUGIN/OPT: No such file or directory
(ENOENT)
configur: tsort: command not found
D:/DJGPP/BIN/cat.exe: -: Bad file descriptor (EBADF)
D:/DJGPP/BIN/cat.exe: -: Bad file descriptor (EBADF)
updating cache ./config.cache
D:/DJGPP/BIN/cat.exe: -: Bad file descriptor (EBADF)
D:/DJGPP/BIN/cat.exe: -: Bad file descriptor (EBADF)
creating ./config.status
D:/DJGPP/BIN/cat.exe: -: Bad file descriptor (EBADF)
D:/DJGPP/BIN/cat.exe: -: Bad file descriptor (EBADF)
D:/DJGPP/BIN/cat.exe: -: Bad file descriptor (EBADF)
D:/DJGPP/BIN/cat.exe: -: Bad file descriptor (EBADF)
D:/DJGPP/BIN/cat.exe: -: Bad file descriptor (EBADF)
D:/DJGPP/BIN/cat.exe: -: Bad file descriptor (EBADF)

Cool! On the offchance, I tried the makefile that had appeared, and it
did zip. I couldn't see why, skimming over it, either, but I didn't
really expect much of it after that :-)

TIA,


ABW
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Alaric B. Williams Internet : alaric AT abwillms DOT demon DOT co DOT uk
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