Date: Sat, 15 Apr 1995 15:08:42 -0500 (CDT)
From: Aaron Ucko <UCKO AT VAX1 DOT ROCKHURST DOT EDU>
Subject: Re: Bug in DJGPP make
To: leisner AT sdsp DOT mc DOT xerox DOT com
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Organization: Rockhurst College; Kansas City, MO

>>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...

I suppose I _should_ probably have gotten cross-gcc, but I've already
gone ahead and converted shellish to 4dosish without excessive lossage
(although I did have to fake `...` stuff, of course).

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