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Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 10:26:52 +0200 (METDST)
From: Robert Hoehne <robert DOT hoehne AT Mathematik DOT TU-Chemnitz DOT DE>
To: DJGPP-ANNOUNCE <djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: ANNOUNCE: Port of GNU autoconf 2.12 uploaded
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I have uploaded the DJGPP port of GNU autoconf 2.12
to simtelnet.

What is autoconf?
=================

Autoconf is a collection of shell scripts, which allows
you to produce redy to use configure scripts from a
small configure.in file, using very powerfull macros
to check your system for available programs, functions
and so on.

It comes in two archives:

acnf212b.zip   - This conatine the binaries (scripts) and
                 documentation in INFO format

acnf212s.zip   - The sources

If you reply to this message, please send it not
announce-djgpp AT delorie DOT com but use instead

djgpp AT delorie DOT com


The file 'readme.djg' which is part of the archives
is appended to this post.


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This is the port of GNU autoconf 2.12 to DJGPP

DJGPP specific changes:
=======================

These changes are very small but powerfull. I changed in
'acgeneral.m4' and 'acspecific.m4' the tests for a given
program, so they can be found using the 'test -x' instead
of the original 'test -f' and I changed there also the
$IFS so the programs can be searched also on MS-DOS, where
the path separator is ';'.

These patches are done in the 'djgppcfg.sh' script, which
is called by configure.bat.

I changed also in the above mentioned '.m4' files the absolute
paths to the data files to using the ${DJGPP} variable.

Requirements:
=============

- GNU bash
- GNU sed
- GNU m4
- GNU install (ginstall)

Building and installing:
========================

create at first (if not already done) a directory

/bin

NOTE: This must be the on the current drive.

copy you bash.exe to /bin/sh.exe

To build autoconf use the following steps:

configure.bat
make
make install

To install it:

make install

How to use autonf
=================

Read the autoconf doc for all the autoconf options.
Since MS-DOS does not support to run shell scripts
directly, you have to run autoconf by a call of
bash.

bash autoconf

Thats (hopefully) the only difference in running autoconf
on DJGPP.

How to run configure scripts
============================

When you have a package with a configure script, which was
created by autoconf, then run it like:

bash configure

NOTE: If the configure script was created by autoconf not from
DJGPP, run at first autoconf from this package here, because it
creates a configure script, which knows about the DJGPP specific
things (see the changes at the beginning of this file)

bash autoconf

Documentation for autoconf:
===========================

After the 'make install' the INFO files, which contain
the documentation about autoconf are copied to your
INFO directory. To access these files also from the
main dir info-file, edit the file dir.txi by adding
the following lines:

* Standards: (standards).        GNU coding standards.

* Autoconf: (autoconf).         Create source code configuration scripts.


If you have any questions about the DJGPP specific parts
of autoconf post it in

comp.os.msdos.djgpp

or mail me directly.

Robert Hoehne <robert DOT hoehne AT mathematik DOT tu-chemnitz DOT de>



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