From:	ajschrotenboer AT lycosmail DOT com
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Subject:	Re: Repost: Disgruntled DJGPP programmer, was Newbie Question
Date:	Sun, 01 Nov 1998 02:34:48 GMT
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I was thinking that I should say that I had d/l'd it from another site (sorry,
don't remember where.), not off of the djgpp simtelnet archive. Also, I had
d/l'd it a few weeks ago, before there were binaries available on the DJGPP
simtel archive.

Question: Is anyone considering putting PGCC binaries & src on the DJGPP
simtel archive???

Also, I will post the errors I get from the GMP pkg sometime this week (I
hope). Thanks for all the answers. Can't say they all help that much, but
they help prove I'm not going totally nutso, and it isn't just my computer.

In article <717d46$cd6$1 AT nnrp1 DOT dejanews DOT com>,
  ajschrotenboer AT lycosmail DOT com wrote:
> 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.
>
> When I ran make I got the following error: "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.
>
> 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?????????????
>
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