To: Aaron Ucko <UCKO AT vax1 DOT rockhurst DOT edu>
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: Bug in DJGPP make
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 1995 09:59:18 PDT
From: Marty Leisner <leisner AT sdsp DOT mc DOT xerox DOT com>


In message <01HPC192UDDU006RT1 AT VAX1 DOT ROCKHURST DOT EDU>,   writes:
>I am trying to port the GNU shellutils to DJGPP.  (They aren't _all_
>useless, esp. with ms_sh).  Unfortunately, I am blocked by (among other
>things) a bug in DJGPP's make; even though SHELL is set to /bin/sh and
>/bin/sh.exe exists, make creates and runs .BAT files (hence implicitly
>calling $COMSPEC).  Am I going to have to drastically rewrite all the
>makefiles to compensate for this bug?  The prospect does not seem a
>pleasant one...
>

I'm in the process of cross-compiling this on Linux.
What I'm doing is configuring on linux, hand editing
the config.h and run cross-make (is there way a good way to
cross-compile configure distributions...I'm lost in the manual...)

I found it useful at other times to run configure on a Unix box, 
and hand edit the resulting makefiles/configure.in...

marty