From: Cesar Rabak <csrabak AT uol DOT com DOT br>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Can't make Antiword with Djgpp
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 21:23:05 -0300
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
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> >
> > The problem is, that it just says "make.exe : *** [antiword.exe] error
> > -1" after the DOS prompt.
> 
> Add this line to the beginning of Makefile:
> 
> SHELL = /bin/sh
> 
> Then download and install these 2 packages from the usual DJGPP sites:
> 
>   v2gnu/bsh204b.zip
>   v2gnu/fil40b.zip
> 
> Then this Makefile should work.
> 
> In the future, when this happens, look at the Makefile and try to
> understand what commands don't work.  Then either look on your system for
> those commands, or ask here where to get them.
> 
> In this case, the missing command was chmod, which is part of Fileutils.

Eli,

Just for the sake of increasing my grasp: how did you figure that out
from this (for me at least ;-) cryptic message?

Regards,

Cesar