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diff --git a/README.DOS.template b/README.DOS.template index 6226f7b..065c239 100644 --- a/README.DOS.template +++ b/README.DOS.template @@ -26,6 +26,10 @@ New (since 3.74) DOS-specific features: 8. Can be built without (a previous version of) Make. + 9. The build process requires only standard tools. (Optional + targets like "install:" and "clean:" still need additional + programs, though, see below.) + To build: @@ -35,30 +39,61 @@ To build: 2. Invoke the `configure.bat' batch file. - If it doesn't find a working Make, it will suggest to use the - `dosbuild.bat' batch file to build Make. Either do as it - suggests or install another Make program (a pre-compiled binary - should be available from the usual DJGPP sites). + If you are building Make in-place, i.e. in the same directory + where its sources are kept, just type "configure.bat" and press + [Enter]. Otherwise, you need to supply the path to the source + directory as an argument to the batch file, like this: - 3. If you have Make, the configure script will need a Unix-style - Sed program. If you don't have that installed, you can find one - on one of the DJGPP mirror sites. + configure.bat c:/djgpp/gnu/make-3.76 + + Note the forward slashes: you MUST use them here. + + 3. If configure.bat doesn't find a working Make, it will suggest to + use the `dosbuild.bat' batch file to build Make. Either do as it + suggests or install another Make program (a pre-compiled binary + should be available from the usual DJGPP sites) and rerun + configure.bat. 4. If you will need to run Make on machines without an FPU, you might consider building a version of Make which doesn't issue floating-point instructions (they don't help much on MSDOS - anyway). To this end, invoke the configure batch file like so: - - configure no-float + anyway). To this end, edit the Makefile created by + configure.bat and add -DNO_FLOAT to the value of CPPFLAGS. 5. Invoke Make. - 6. If you have a Unix-style shell installed, you can use the - `install' target. You will also need GNU Fileutils and GNU - Sh-utils for this (they should be available from the DJGPP - sites). + If you are building from outside of the source directory, you + need to tell Make where the sources are, like this: + + make srcdir=c:/djgpp/gnu/make-3.76 + + (configure.bat will tell you this when it finishes). You MUST + use a full, not relative, name of the source directory here, or + else Make might fail. + + 6. After Make finishes, if you have a Unix-style shell installed, + you can use the `install' target to install the package. You + will also need GNU Fileutils and GNU Sh-utils for this (they + should be available from the DJGPP sites). + + Without a Unix-style shell, you will have to install programs + and the docs manually. Copy make.exe to a directory on your + PATH, make.i* info files to your Info directory, and update the + file `dir' in your Info directory by adding the following item + to the main menu: + + * GNU make: (make.info). The GNU make utility. + + If you have the `install-info' program (from the GNU Texinfo + package), it will do that for you if you invoke it like this: + + install-info --info-dir=c:/djgpp/info c:/djgpp/info/make.info + + (If your Info directory is other than C:\DJGPP\INFO, change this + command accordingly.) - 7. The `clean' targets require Unix-style `rm' program. + 7. The `clean' targets also require Unix-style shell and `test' and + `rm' programs (from Fileutils and Sh-utils, accordingly). @@ -67,7 +102,8 @@ Notes: 1. The shell issue. - This is probably the most significant improvement in this port. + This is probably the most significant improvement, first + introduced in the port of GNU Make 3.75. The original behavior of GNU Make is to invoke commands directly, as long as they don't include characters special to |