Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1998 11:50:07 +0200 (WET)
From: Andris Pavenis <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv>
To: "Curtis, Craig M." <curtis_c AT lxe DOT com>
cc: "'djgpp AT delorie DOT com'" <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: RE: configure problem
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On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, Curtis, Craig M. wrote:

> I must admit that I am a little bash illiterate.  I typed:
> srcdir=/jed/src
> /jed/src is where the source files are located.  I even tried to export
> srcdir, thinking that would cause srcdir to be sent to the shell script
> you sent.  Anyway the error I get is:
> configure: error: can not find sources in ..
> 
> Thanks,
> Craig Curtis
> 

I think the best solution is to browse the configure script and try to
understand what it does and why it fails. Some experience with BASH
(or other shell) is required there. Read docs, try to write some script
yourselves, try to understand why some script (e.g. why an example I send
to fails for You).  

Without such understanding it may be very difficult to help. 

It usually is no problems to run configure scripts under for example
Linux without special knowledge about internals. Unfortunatelly
with DJGPP things are more complicated.

Andris