Date: Mon, 13 Jun 1994 08:11:53 +0200
From: terra AT diku DOT dk
To: philmo AT eskinews DOT eskimo DOT com
Cc: cbenson AT cmipss2 DOT retix DOT com, djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: The GNU fileutils.


   On Wed, 8 Jun 1994, Colin Benson wrote:
   > 
   > I'm trying to build GNU Emacs for my PC. I've got djpp running ok I
   > believe. (Thanks for the port by the way!). I find that to build GNU
   > emacs I need sed, rm, mv and chmod. The first of these, sed, I built
   > ...

   Does EMacs need them itself or just the makefile?  If it's only the 
   makefile, why not use del and move (or ren, or copy) and (I feel bad, the 
   exact name escapes me) DOS file attribute command

Just the configuration and make process.  The problem with `del'
and `copy' is that it has a different syntax and that the name
change requires manual editing of the makefile.  `move' is not
available in most Dos versions.

Suitable binary versions of `rm', `mv', and `sed' can be found on
all major ftp-sites.

Djgpp compiles `sed' with no changes as of version 2.05 at least.


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