--- gforth/BUILD-FROM-SCRATCH	2000/09/23 15:05:57	1.3
+++ gforth/BUILD-FROM-SCRATCH	2003/08/25 14:17:42	1.13
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 # Procedures to build gforth from the CVS sources
 
-#Copyright (C) 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+#use this with parameters and env variables like "configure"
+
+#Copyright (C) 2000,2002,2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 #This file is part of Gforth.
 
@@ -16,21 +18,29 @@
 
 #You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 #along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
-#Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
+#Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA.
 
 
 # created: 2may00jaw
 
-# To build gforth from scratch you need autoconf and automake.
+# To build gforth from scratch you need autoconf, automake and a 
+# gforth0.5.0
 # This file can be used as shell script. If you make the environment
 # variable GFORTH point to an existing gforth installation, this
-# script takes over kernel and primitve files.
+# script takes over the whole build process and will produce the
+# kernel kernel images from the sources as well
 
-# try to guess a previous version of Gforth
+# try to guess a installed gforth
 
-if [ "$GFORTH" == "" ]
+if [ "$GFORTH"xx = "xx" ];
 then
+	rm -f gforth
 	GFORTH=`which gforth`
+	if [ "$GFORTH"xx = "xx" ]; then
+		echo 'BUILD-FROM-SCRATCH needs a working gforth (in environment variable GFORTH)'
+                exit 1
+        fi
+	GFORTH="$GFORTH -m4M"
 fi
 
 # makes a aclocal.m4 which includes the automake macros for autconf
@@ -45,14 +55,21 @@ autoconf
 
 autoheader
 
-# run configure script
+# run configure sXScript
 
 ./configure $*
 
 # if you have specified a previous Gforth, you can savely run make now
 # with FORTHK and FORTHP changed appropriate.
 
-if [ "$GFORTH" != "" ]
+#a local gforth.fi probably does not work with $GFORTH
+rm gforth.fi
+
+echo xz
+if [ "$GFORTH"xx != "xx" ]
 then
-	make FORTHK="$GFORTH"
+ echo Running: make BUILDFORTH="$GFORTH" FORTHP="$GFORTH" gforth...
+ make BUILDFORTH="$GFORTH" FORTHP="$GFORTH" gforth
+ echo Running: make BUILDFORTH="$GFORTH" FORTHP="$GFORTH" all...
+ make BUILDFORTH="$GFORTH" FORTHP="$GFORTH" all
 fi