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Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 11:06:15 -0500
From: John Fortin <fortinj AT attglobal DOT net>
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Subject: Re: File permision errors on win98 with net release candidate
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John Fortin wrote:

> Earnie Boyd wrote:
>
> > Hi John,
> >
> > Your problem might be due to autoconf itself.  I've been working with modifying
> > autoconf to work with Amol's ntport of zsh and had to modify it to look for
> > m4.exe, gawk.exe, etc instead of just m4, gawk, etc.  The function is
> > AC_PATH_PROG in acgeneral.m4.  You'll have to modify the configure by hand to
> > bootstrap.  See line 545 of configure for the check for gm4, gnum4 and m4.
> >
> > Earnie.
> >
>
> Hi Earnie,
>     But this worked in the past without any problems.  And other packages are
> broken too ( grep, fileutils for instance).
>
> John

As a followup, the same setup on NT4 SP4 works fine.  Anyone else testing/using
Win98?

John