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From:	Juan Manuel Guerrero <juan DOT guerrero AT gmx DOT de>
To:	djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	ANNOUNCE: release 3 of the DJGPP port of Findutils 4.2.33 uploaded.
Date:	Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:58:42 +0200
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 This is release 4 of the port of GNU Findutils 4.2.33 to MSDOS/DJGPP.

 DJGPP specific changes.
 =======================

 This is a bug fix release.  One issue has been solved here:
 - find will no longer fail with an error message like this:
     cannot get current directory: No such file or directory (ENOENT)
   if it run on WinNT/2K/XP with LFN enabled and if CWD is the root directory
   of the drive.  This is not a bug in the find port itself but in the code of
   the internal function __get_current_directory() that is used by function
   __canonicalize_path().  This bug can be easily demonstrated by starting
   cmd.exe with the following command:
     start /Dc:\ cmd.exe
   Please note that the drive specifier character is lower case.  Now start find
   of the previous release from the root directory with the command:
     find
   It will fail with no more output than this:
     C:\djgpp\bin/find.exe: cannot get current directory: No such file or directory (ENOENT)
   The function that fails is lstat() that calls _fixpath() that calls
   __get_current_directory() that is not able to handle lower case drive specifier
   character if LFN support is enabled and the CWD is the root directory.  This
   issue has been fixed in the CVS version of fixpath.c and thus in the version
   used in the new version of libsupp too.  This means that you must download
   the package:
     ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/beta/v2tk/lsupp52a.zip
   to be able to configure and compile the sources.  Of course, if you are not
   interested in compiling the sources you do not need to download and install
   lsupp52a.zip at all.


 Thanks to Robert Riebisch to calling my attention about this issue and for
 help debugging it.

 For futher information about GNU Findutils please read the info docs and the
 NEWS file.



 Compiling the sources.
 ======================

 As usual the sources are configured for stock djdev203.
 - If you compile the sources with djdev203, you must proceed as usual running
   the following commands from the top srcdir, this is findutils-4.2.33:
     make
     make install
   The testsuite does not work because GNU dejagnu is not available.

 - If you compile the sources with djdev204 it will be essential to reconfigure
   sources because the distributed one have been configured for djdev203.  For
   this purpose you *must* delete ./djgpp/config.cache and ./config_h.org.
   or the build process will fail.

 In conclusion, to rebuild the findutils binaries with djdev204 run the
 following commands from the top srcdir (findutils-4.2.33):
   rm djgpp/config.cache
   rm config_h.org
   make clean
   djgpp/config.bat
   make
   make install



 The port consists of the usual three packages produced using stock djdev203
 that can be downloaded from ftp.delorie.com and mirrors as (timestamp 2008-06-27):

    Findutils 4.2.33 binary, info and man format documentation:
    ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/fnd4233br4.zip

    Findutils 4.2.33 dvi, html, pdf and ps format documentation:
    ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/fnd4233dr4.zip

    Findutils 4.2.33 source:
    ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/fnd4233sr4.zip


 For the convenience of the WinXP users the binaries has been produced a
 second time using the djdev204 beta library. This package is available
 at ftp.delorie.com and mirrors as (timestamp 2008-06-27):

    Findutils 4.2.33 binary, info and man format documentation:
    ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/beta/v2gnu/fnd4233br4.zip





 Send findutils specific bug reports to <bug-findutils AT gnu DOT org>.
 Send suggestions and bug reports concerning the DJGPP port
 to comp.os.msdos.djgpp or <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>.

Enjoy.

          Guerrero, Juan Manuel <juan DOT guerrero AT gmx DOT de>

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