Re: [Mingw-msys] Reconstruction of MSYS-1.0.11 test results.

[Max T. W. <ma...@mt...>]

This is one of a series of reports on a test to reconstruct the
MSYS-1.0.11 distribution kit. It contains a description of building
the fileutils package.

This package produces the chgrp.exe, chmod.exe, chown.exe, cp.exe,
dd.exe, df.exe, dir.exe, dircolor.exe, du.exe, install.exe, 
ln.exe, ls.exe, mkdir.exe, mkfifo.exe, mknod.exe, mv.exe, rm.exe, 
rmdir.exe, shred.exe, sync.exe, touch.exe and vdir.exe.  The chgrp, 
chown, dd, df, dir, dircolor, du, mkfifo, mknod, shred, sync and
vdir images are not included in any current MinGW or MSys packages.
(Note that most of the omitted commands are not used when building
programs.  The 'df' command, while sometimes useful, has at least 
one glitch when reporting on file systems >2GB that would cause
quite a few problems.)  Also produced but not distributed are
charset.alias, man and info pages and share/locale files.

This package was setup under an older version of the autotools
and would require some updating of its underlying configuration
files to make the autotools work on it.  Rather than make this
set of changes and produce a result that could be markedly different
from what was distributed, the modification dates on several files
in the source directory had to be changed to allow 'make' to ignore
the need to run the autotools.  Specifically aclocal.m4, all the
Makefile.in files, configure and stamp-h.in had to be touched in
that order.  I added '--enable-largefiles' as a configuration option
as a reminder to myself that 'df' needed fixing.  This is a default
'on' option and really makes no difference in the results.