Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 11:50:34 -0400
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Subject: Re: Can't make Antiword with Djgpp
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> From: kreg0815 AT iscb DOT de (Michael Lang)
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: 3 Aug 2001 10:37:46 GMT
> 
> In case anybody's interested and hasn't discoverd it already, the
> source code uses a make variable called __dos to determine some
> things, when it is compiled. For instance, if I include the line
> #define __dos 1
> in antiword.h, the executable doesn't look for the home variable
> anymore and it doesn't look for a .antiword directory. It just looks
> at c:\antiword for its header file.

It also does lots of things which are wrong for DJGPP.  The Unix
version is much more suitable for DJGPP than the __dos version,
although neither is 100% correct.

(The $HOME thing and the way "make install" installs the program and
the auxiliary files is plain wrong, IMHO: it should install things in
a public directory, not in the user's private directory, and not in
C:\.)