According to Maurice Lombardi:

I have tried to build gpc-971001 from the zip sources for DJGPP v2.01 I use plain DOS with or without bash shell:

-unzip fresh new gcc-2721 in directory %DJDIR%\gnu\ -unzip gpc sources to %DJDIR%, then put the p\ tree as subdirectory of gcc-2721

then follow instructions contained in p\config\msdos\readme2.dj.

It builds gcc, but then stops without building gpc ?

Strange. :-( Anyway, when you have reached this step, the following is known to work: `cd' to `\djgpp\gnu\gpc\p' and do `make ../xgpc', `make ../gpc1', `make ../gpc-cpp', and `make ../libgpc.a' from there. This builds the respective `.exe' files, although we do *not* specify the extension `.exe'. After that, move the `.exe's to `\djgpp\bin', and `libgpc.a' to '\djgpp\lib' to install.

Other problems found:

1- the p\config\msdos\configur.bat must be in dos format (return-linefeed) to run in plain dos [...].

Fixed.

2- there is a problem with backward slashes \ in the makefile in lines like ./bi-arity < $(srcdir)\bytecode.def >tmp-bc-arity.h (three times). Seems to come from the application of gnu\gcc-2721\config\msdos\top.sed and is already present in the compilation of gcc alone. I have filed a bug report to dj delorie, and fixed it manually after running configure go32 which produces this makefile.

So there is nothing we could do about that ... may I ask you to document it in `README2.DJ'?

3- [`.gdbinit' vs. `_gdbinit']

Okay. It will be fixed in the next `.zip' release. Thanks for your cooperation, Peter Dipl.-Phys. Peter Gerwinski, Essen, Germany, free physicist and programmer peter.gerwinski@uni-essen.de - http://home.pages.de/~peter.gerwinski/ [971005] maintainer GNU Pascal [971001] - http://home.pages.de/~gnu-pascal/ [971005]