Hi all,

Sometimes ago I have seen in a message of DJ Delorie in comp.os.msdos.djgpp, saying that now djgpp with the autoconf port can build with minor modification nearly every unix program governed by configure shell scripts. I have thus retried to build gpc under plain DOS from gcc-2.8.1 and the latest alpha sources gpc-980511.tar.gz. It works indeed with very few modifications, but everything contained in the directory p/config/msdos is now outdated, the configuration for gcc has been completely changed between 2.7.2.x and 2.8.x.

I give in attachment a couple of files suggested for doing the modifications automatically (a driver prepare.bat and a shell script doprepar.sh), and a couple of instruction files (install.txt for binaries, the old one only slightly updated, and readme.djgpp for sources) to be put into the p/config/msdos directory (replacing the old ones).

The modifications are - a few 8.3 issues stamp-objlist -> s-objlist .gdbinit -> gdb.ini g??.info-NN -> g??.iNN (only when LFN=n) - GCC is built into the build.djgpp subdirectory of the gnu/gc-2.81 source directory, while gpc must be built into the source directory itself. - enlarge the stack for gpc1 and gpc-cpp. Done by modifying a file config/i386/x-go32 which is already used by Delorie for enlarging the stack of cc1 cc1plus and cc1obj.

With these modifications (plus one below to be done in the gpc sources themselves) all compiles, and the built compiler gives the same results as the binaries contained in the distribution for everything I have tried, some private programs, test programs from bgi2grx, the gpc test and testsuite.

The modification suggested to gpc sources themselves is the following While looking around in the gcc "makefile.in" I have found the following:

# Install the info files. # $(INSTALL_DATA) might be a relative pathname, so we can't cd into srcdir # to do the install. The sed rule was copied from stmp-int-hdrs. install-info: doc installdirs lang.install-info -rm -f $(infodir)/cpp.i* $(infodir)/gcc.i* for f in $(srcdir)/cpp.i* $(srcdir)/gcc.i*; do \ realfile=`echo $$f | sed -e 's|.*/([^/]*)$$|\1|'`; \ $(INSTALL_DATA) $$f $(infodir)/$$realfile; \ done -chmod a-x $(infodir)/cpp.i* $(infodir)/gcc.i*

... and in the file "make-lang.in" from gpc, we indeed cd into the srcdir, and this fails when I install in a relative directory (to see what happens without overwriting my previous binary installation of gpc). So I suggest to replace in "gpc/p/make-lan.in" the old content

pascal.install-info: $(srcdir)/p/doc/gpc.info -rm -f $(infodir)/gpc.info* ; cd $(srcdir)/p/doc; for f in gpc.info*; \ do $(INSTALL_DATA) $$f $(infodir)/$$f; done -chmod a-x $(infodir)/gpc.info*

by the new content

pascal.install-info: $(srcdir)/p/doc/gpc.info -rm -f $(infodir)/gpc.info* ; for f in $(srcdir)/p/doc/gpc.info*; do \ realfile=`echo $$f | sed -e 's|.*/([^/]*)$$|\1|'`; \ $(INSTALL_DATA) $$f $(infodir)/$$realfile; \ done -chmod a-x $(infodir)/gpc.info*

The doprepar.sh will take care of info* -> i* afterwards, only for the dos/LFN=no case. I have checked thas this works.

Finally I have taken the .tar.gz sources untarred by the djtar utility. For .zip sources there remain a couple of problems to be solved: .gdbinit is ignored by pkzip and extracted as _.gdb by infozip. The extraction as _gdbinit done by djtar is supposed in the doprepar.sh script. in gpc-980401.zip I have tried, the info files have the long names gpc.info-NN, which cause problem both with pkunzip and infozip. This is also the case in the .tar.gz archive, but djtar takes care of this, by translating them to gpc.iNN, when LFN=no. The simplest workaround is probably not to include these files, since they are rebuilt easily from texi sources. the gpc diff filenames gpc-2.8.0.diff and gpc-2.8.1.diff are extracted by djtar as gpc-2.8-0 and gpc-2.8-1, which is fine for doprepar.sh, while infozip extract both as gpc-2_8_.dif (and barks for overwriting). This has no importance for alpha or beta stages, where you can supply only .tar.gz files, but needs to be solved when releasing an official version (everything is in zip format in the djgpp archives).

Hope this helps.