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Re: astksh review


Hallo Karsten,

Elfyn wrote:
>> be a good idea to include build instructions and tools required to
>> re-build from source..apart from that it's looking great 

Karsten wrote:
> Regarding build instructions:
> Well, everything's there already.

> Follow the normal GNU tools instructions, configure/make:

> $ ./configure
> you didn't have to do that

> So, guess what that means :-)

> $ make
> [...]

> Here we go.
> You don't need anything else.

[After that: a short, ~90 lines build report was printed on my screen]

> I hope I could give some insight. Some things looked like black magic to
> me at first, too, two years ago.

Wow, I had similar experience when building libsfio the first time.
This should really be included in a /usr/docs/Cygwin/ast-ksh.README
file for interested individuals.


Gerrit
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