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Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 18:45:34 -0100
From: Robert Hoehne <robert DOT hoehne AT gmx DOT net>
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: DJGPP 2.02 Beta 981027
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Eli Zaretskii wrote :
> 
> Somebody (you?) once told me that having gcc instead of gcc.exe helps
> to run configure scripts because they look for programs with "test -f".

Yes, that was I who said this, but I made also the needed patch
to autoconv (and sent them to the maintainer) to fix that problem.
(but as I can see, until today they are not applied, I'll try
to resend them soon).

The autoconv for DJGPP has this fixed, since it uses now in
such situations the "test -x" which will find also gcc.exe even
when you call "test -x gcc".

> If somebody uses this trick, and doesn't need to run those programs
> from COMMAND.COM, changing ginstall to append .exe will break their
> setup, and I hate breaking setup of others.

Until there is no new autoconv official available with my patches,
any package for DJGPP which will be ported should be run first through
the DJGPP's version of autoconf to fix at least this (beside others)
problem.

Robert
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