From: DavMac AT iname DOT com (Davin McCall)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: configure and djgpp
Date: Fri, 05 Nov 1999 04:21:36 GMT
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Actually, sh and rm are available for DOS, and they were ported using
DJGPP! You can find them in various of the packages from the DJGPP
distributions site - Not sure of the exact filenames, but they are
called fileutils, textutils, and bash.

Davin.


On Thu, 4 Nov 1999 17:27:26 -0000, "Sakis Platsas" <sakisp AT lake DOT ie>
wrote:

>I assume that direct compilation of autoconf-ed Makefiles is impossible in
>djgpp (correct me if I'm wrong) and that, in order to actually use
>configure, a package like U/WIN or CygWin should be installed on the system,
>to make up for the missing components like sh, rm etc.
>
>Are these the only avenues on the matter?
>
>TIA

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