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From: assa AT infolada DOT com (Alexander Trump)
Subject: Re: building gcc 2.7.1 on DOS
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Michael E. Wesolowski (mewesolo AT freenet DOT calgary DOT ab DOT ca) wrote:

: I've posted before on this subject and am making some progress. I am 
: assuming that the directions contained within the 'install' file are 
: applicable to DOS, except that I'm using djgpp directly. What I've 
: accomplished so far is to 'make LANGUAGES=c' (with some tweaking - 

I made it with `make bootstrap ...' but look like missed something - it
won't handle exceptions in compiled programs plus I had heavy troubles with
gcc library.

: details available if required). The next stage is to 'make stage1' which 
: copies a bunch of files to the 'stage1' directory. Unfortunately, the 
: commands in teh makefile are unix based, which is where I'm having trouble.

: I think that what I have to do for DOS is execute the command

: for %filename in ($(files_to_move)) do move %filename stage1

IMHO no way. 
`for'	statement is processed in the batch files only. Try to `echo' the
lines you wish to a .bat and execute it. I'm afraid DOS won't like a line
such long as $(files_to_move).

There is a solution to avoid some problems: try 4dos instead the command.com.

--

Sincerely, Alexander.