From: snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com (Mark E.) To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] DJGPP port of GNU Autoconf 2.13 update 2 Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 15:42:47 GMT Organization: Snowball's Web Message-ID: <377d8895.757784@smtp1.ibm.net> References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.5/32.452 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id LAA27261 Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com On Thu, 1 Jul 1999 18:00:31 +0300 (IDT), you wrote: >But you were intending to make the separator be : by default, and all >ported packages that need this already set PATH_SEPARATOR=:. It seems to >me that this solves the problem reliably enough to not bother the official >GNU distribution with DJGPP-specific changes. I haven't submitted any of the DJGPP specific changes. test -x vs test -f is supposed to be taken care of in the next release of Autoconf, so that thorn will be going away. > >Only my opinion, of course. And it turns out we happen to agree. One idea I have for a new update that I'd like comments on would be to include a config.site as described in the Autoconf docs. That script could set PATH_SEPARATOR to ':' (just in case someone changes the default), then do stuff like this: if test -x ${DJDIR}/gcc.exe; then export CC=${DJDIR}/gcc.exe fi if test -x ${DJDIR}/gpp.exe; then export CXX=${DJDIR}/gpp.exe fi etc. to get around the 'test -f' problem and allow configure scripts to work without regenerating then. The script would go into $DJDIR/share. Then define CONFIG_SITE in the [bash] and [sh] sections in djgpp.env so the file can be read without having to use --prefix. -- Mark E.: snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com http://snowball.frogspace.net/