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Date:	Wed, 28 Oct 1998 12:00:29 -0700
From:	bowman <bowman AT montana DOT com>
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To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: Repost: Disgruntled DJGPP programmer, was Newbie Question
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ajschrotenboer AT lycosmail DOT com wrote:
> 
> I think it's really pitiful that they can't even make a proper makefile for
> the DJGPP platform. The configure script doesn't seem to work for me. The
> makefile that it creates doesn't work. Can anybody tell me what's
> wrong?????????????

It is hard to say without concrete examples of where the makefile is
failing. The
FAQ covers some problems, but this is a difficult area. For a GNU port,
there
is quite a bit of tweaking. If you look in the archives, there have been
discussions
on the difficulties of 'ln -s', the '-x' vs '-f' test, setting up the
bash SHELL,
as well as sed and autoconf oddities. 

The maintainer of a particular package may have had a script that worked
satisfactorily on
his machine, and no way of testing it on other platforms. I've found I
can take a running
script from a Win95/bash/gnu utilities box, and have it break on a
straight DOS 6.22 platform.
In my case, I can test DOS, Win3.11, and Win95, but can't test NT or
Win98 easily. I'm sure
others trying to port code are in the same fix.

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