Notes on Rebuilding XFree86/OS2 from Scratch
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  2. Tools required
I have tried to reduce the number of external tools, but when looking back
it seems I were not very successful. At least I managed to get everything
working with the native CMD.EXE shell only. However, there is still plenty
of software required.
Most of this software is available from hobbes.nmsu.edu or ftp.leo.org
via anonymous FTP. The following shopping list shows what you will need:
- gcc	EMX/gcc emx 0.9d patch2 or later
- gzip	GNU zip/unzip
- tar	GNU tar
- patch	Larry Wall's patch utility (attention: incompatible tool with same name in OS/2)
- install	BSD/GNU install
- rm,mv,cp	GNU file utilities
- tee,..	GNU shell utilities
- groff	GNU nroff/troff
- sed	GNU sed stream editor
- grep	GNU grep
- gawk	GNU awk
- make	GNU make 3.71/3.72 (use the one from Xprog.zip!)
- flex	GNU flex
- bison	GNU bison
- find	GNU find    (attention: incompatible tool with the same name in OS/2)
- unix2dos  Some conversion utility to convert LF delimiter to CRLF (may
be called unixtoos2 or alike as well)
If there is no version number given, any new version will do. Particularly
critical is only EMX/gcc and GNU make. Note that the second GCC implementation
which might still be available from some archives is NOT compatible.
Furthermore, you need the XFree86 sources. These are available from 
the common XFree86 repositories. Look into a directory which is 
often named /pub/XFree86/3.3.6/source.
 
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