From:	Adam Schrotenboer <ajschrotenboer AT lycosmail DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Newbie question
Date:	Sun, 25 Oct 1998 19:49:38 -0500
Organization:	Triton Technologies, Inc
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I have all the utilities you should need to build GNU pkgs, but I can
never make them work.
I hate to have to call myself a newbie, after having been in computers
for over 7 years, but in this case
(GNU GCC & DJGPP) I guess that I am.

The only pkg I have ever been able to successfully build is Allegro.
Any GNU pkg I try to build gives me
an error of some sort.

For example, I was trying (again) today to build EGCS 1.1b. I have
flex, autoconf, bison, sed, bash, grep,
shell utilities (I think this is it, shl112b.zip, off of
simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/), file utilities, plus all the stuff
necessary to write and build my own programs.

The error I got was "Missing Separator (106)". I looked in the
makefile, and went to line 106. The line had
an extra hard return. This also occurred at other places, such as 502,
and 700 something. for these I
removed the hard return, but then the trouble lines went into stuff
about language hooks, and no obvious
place to move the line up to.

What is wrong? Is the DJGPP env't too different from std Linux and
Unix configs????

Am I forever to need precompiled binaries??? Waiting for somebody w/ a
cross-compiler and some time
and the gumption to provide binaries for me to use. I'm considering
Linux, but at this time it just isn't
practical.

Right now I'm using PGCC 1.0.1. I know there is a 1.1, but I can't use
it w/o being able to build it or
finding a precompiled binary for DJGPP. And Andrew Crabtree has not
built & released 1.1 yet, not that
I have anything against him.

I'm sorry if I sound disgruntled, but that's because I am. I've been
asking questions about various build
problems for a while (GNU MP, EGCS). Now I admit that before a couple
of days ago, I really didn't
have all the utilities I needed. But now I do. And it still doesn't
work.

HEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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