Oops, I forgot that this is what was suggested to be renamed to autogen.sh! I guess that never made it into the distribution and I didn't even think twice about it when it was missing.
Sorry for the interruption! Jorge, I'm swamped too! ;) Bernd, way to go! DaR On 3/11/03 1:19 AM, "Anton Ertl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dennis Ruffer wrote: >> >> Anton, >> >> Did you change how the chicken & egg problem is handled somehow? >> >> I used to do: env GFORTH="./gforth -i ./kernl32b.fi -m4M" make > > I think you mean > > env GFORTH=... ./BUILD-FROM-SCRATCH > > However, if you already have gforth and your kernl....fi in ".", you > can just say > > make > >> With or without the old method, it was looking for the gforth.fi in the >> places where it will be after it is installed, so I had to do something. Of >> course, I know that this is only the case because I'm working with my own >> CVS repository > > The problems with the CVS directory are: > > - If you only store source files there, you are missing some files > necessary for bootstrapping. > > - If you also have generated files there, the mtimes of the files are > likely such that make will break the bootstrap cycle in the wrong > place. > > However, if you have a gforth (>=0.5.0) installed somewhere, and all the > tools, BUILD-FROM-SCRATCH should fix both problems. > > - anton > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
