From:	pavenis AT lanet DOT lv
Message-ID:	<B0000031884@stargate.astr.lu.lv>
To:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date:	Fri, 5 Jun 1998 21:28:22 +0300
MIME-Version:	1.0
Subject:	Possible update of gcc-2.8.1 archives

About a month has gone since release of port of gcc-2.8.1.
Some problems have appeared and also I have changed rather
many things (I'm not sure I have not forgotten something):

-   problems with full backslash support (however '/' should always 
    be used in dependencies outputed from 'gcc -M ..' ). Fixed
    in version on my HDD and I hope there will be no need to return 
    to this

-   latest problems with incomplete DJGPP instalation when %DJDIR%
    is not available. I think it's enough to give fatal error message and quit.
    There were suggestions to try to guess correct values of %DJGPP%
    and %DJDIR% and set them. I think we should provide correct error
    message with minimal resources to help user to correct installation 
    problems and no more.

    Anyway infinite loop in prefix.c should be considered as bug in gcc.
    Perhaps I'll try to send bug report later.

-   G77 support for gcc-2.8.1. g77-0.5.23 was released in May and there
    were no problems to build it except than to slightly edit some files.
    Users should consider that g77 is still beta. There will be common files
    between g77 and gcc both source and binary distributions and g77 
    should always be installed after gcc.

-   Libraries are recompiled with using patched version of AS.EXE which
    no more include  info about temporary labels in object files


Perhaps I should still test all with first test release of binutils-2.9
from Andrew before uploading fixed archives. 

The only problem is that the version is not changed so we'll have the 
same archive names.


Andris

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