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Either version of perl-5.005, and the new one perl.561 which is much
larger,
produce this same "waiting state";
the beta's were suggested because others said they were newer that the
stable-releases and "do work well enough"...
A certain combination of Stable + Beta probably does work; though I can
not
seem to achieve it.

I have decided to install Cygwin.  211mb, perl, python, gcc, mingw,
etc., all
installed.  I am curious how autoconf/autom4te work under cygwin.
Perhaps
I can observe something that is not there in the DJGPP or some other
observation.  Either way, this is not a priority with me.  Just thought
I would
give DJGPP a try with the more involved tools to see what would happen.

Cygwin sure is a step up from the DJGPP environment...  and how can you
beat
cygwin's setup.exe tool... just like a real Linux Package Installer...
sheesh :)

I need to get me some respectable books on Bash, Perl, and a single
book that covers BinUtils if there's such a thing.

THANKS to everyone who tried to offer some advice on this problem,
but it is time to move on.

Wonder what my chances are of someone sending me a cdrom of their
working DJGPP installation, where autoconf, and other things, work as
described?  Won't hold my breath.  :-)