Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 08:53:01 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "Paul C." <aj822 AT traverse DOT lib DOT mi DOT us>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com, aj822 AT leo DOT nmc DOT edu
Subject: Re: FW:Error when compiling Ghostsctript using DJGPP (Resent to include EMAIL address)
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On Mon, 30 Dec 1996, Paul C. wrote:

> > Problem #1
> > The Echo command returns a DOS like error, so I substitutred that line by
> > using the type command as follows:
> > 		type paul.txt >>_temp_
> > (where the file PAUL.TXT contains the text -lsys -lc -lm)

That should not be a problem, unless you use an old port of Make.  Be 
sure to use Make 3.75, and the original line with Echo should work 
unaltered.  If it doesn't please tell exactly what error message(s) does 
it print.

> > Problem #2
> > But choking spot #2 is occuring on the next line when GCC is executing
> the
> > command.  It cannot find the file or library -lsys.  I seem unable how to
> > find and solve this problem.  It is happy with -lc and -lm since I
> believe
> > it found it since at the DOS prompt I typed GCC -lc and it was happy. 
> > Latter I typed GCC -lm  it was happy also, but it didn't like GCC -lsys
> > indicated the file or lib not found.  Am I missing a library file? Any
> > ideas?

DJGPP doesn't have that library, and you shouldn't need it.  Try to link 
without it, or make an empty library libsys.a.