Re: Autoconf and DJGPP

[Rugxulo]

Hi,

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Ralf Wildenhues
<address@hidden> wrote:
> * Rugxulo wrote on Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 09:02:52AM CEST:
>> On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 1:09 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
>> > * Rugxulo wrote on Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 07:24:40AM CEST:
>> >>
>> >> Okay, I know this isn't directly related, but you guys seem to keep
>> >> thinking 2.05b is old and unused,
>> >
>> > No, we don't.  At least we'll probably work around errors, if possible.
>> > Please grab git Autoconf, build it, and run its testsuite on your OS X
>> > 10.3.9, and report any failures here.
>>
>> I'll be honest, I don't even know what I need installed, and I'm only
>> in town using this computer until Saturday (five more days), so I
>> can't promise anything. What do I need, Perl, GNU M4, Bash, Git, ???
>
> Yep.  Well, to build the git version you also need Automake and recent
> Autoconf installed; so maybe it's easier to just grab a 2.64 tarball
> <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.64.tar.gz>, that way you
> won't need git nor autotools installed.

Sorry, but I'm heading back home tomorrow, and I didn't have time to
test anything. (Apparently I don't know what I'm doing anyways. I
still have no idea how to test without installing some additional GNU
tools which this Mac apparently lacks by default. No developer tools
were ever installed.) Maybe next time.