--- gforth/BUILD-FROM-SCRATCH	2001/08/08 14:44:20	1.8
+++ gforth/BUILD-FROM-SCRATCH	2002/12/21 09:58:02	1.11
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 # Procedures to build gforth from the CVS sources
 
+#use this with parameters and env variables like "configure"
+
 #Copyright (C) 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 #This file is part of Gforth.
@@ -32,7 +34,13 @@
 
 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
@@ -54,11 +62,14 @@ autoheader
 # if you have specified a previous Gforth, you can savely run make now
 # with FORTHK and FORTHP changed appropriate.
 
+#a local gforth.fi probably does not work with $GFORTH
+rm gforth.fi
+
 echo xz
 if [ "$GFORTH"xx != "xx" ]
 then
- echo Running: make BUILDFORTH="$GFORTH" gforth...
- make BUILDFORTH="$GFORTH" gforth
- echo Running: make BUILDFORTH="$GFORTH" all...
- make BUILDFORTH="$GFORTH" all
+ 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