--- gforth/BUILD-FROM-SCRATCH	2001/04/30 13:48:56	1.5
+++ gforth/BUILD-FROM-SCRATCH	2008/01/16 21:29:03	1.24
@@ -1,12 +1,14 @@
 # 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) 2000,2002,2003,2006,2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 #This file is part of Gforth.
 
 #Gforth is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 #modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
-#as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
+#as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3
 #of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
 
 #This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
@@ -15,44 +17,52 @@
 #GNU General Public License for more details.
 
 #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., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA.
+#along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
 
 
 # created: 2may00jaw
 
-# To build gforth from scratch you need autoconf and automake.
+# To build gforth from scratch you need autoconf, automake and a 
+# gforth-0.6.2
 # 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
 
-if [ "$GFORTH" == "" ]
+if [ "$GFORTH"xx = "xx" ];
 then
-	GFORTH=`which gforth`
+    rm -f gforth
+    GFORTH="`which gforth` --die-on-signal"
+    if [ "$GFORTH"xx = "xx" ]; then
+	echo 'BUILD-FROM-SCRATCH needs a working gforth (in environment variable GFORTH)'
+        exit 1
+    fi
 fi
 
 # makes a aclocal.m4 which includes the automake macros for autconf
 
-aclocal
+aclocal &&
 
 # generate configure script
 
-autoconf
+autoconf &&
 
 # generate header files like engine/config.h.in
 
-autoheader
-
-# run configure script
+autoheader &&
+echo timestamp >stamp-h.in
 
-./configure $*
+# run configure Script
 
-# if you have specified a previous Gforth, you can savely run make now
-# with FORTHK and FORTHP changed appropriate.
+./configure "$@" &&
 
-if [ "$GFORTH" != "" ]
-then
-	make BUILDGFORTH="$GFORTH"
-fi
+#a local gforth.fi probably does not work with $GFORTH
+rm -f gforth.fi &&
+
+echo Running: make bootstrap &&
+make bootstrap &&
+echo Running: make &&
+make &&
+make doc &&
+make more