Mail Archives: djgpp-workers/2002/10/18/20:34:24
> Please could everybody review readme.1st. Once that is done, we can
> release DJGPP 2.04 alpha 1.
>
> Which brings me to a problem: I have no time left, to do a release,
> before I go on holiday. Could someone else do the release (DJ, Andrew,
> whoever), please? I think all the pre-release work has been done,
> so it should just be a matter of running distrib/mkdist.bat
> in a freshly checked-out build. You will probably need my patches
> to mkdist.bat from the other day, so that the DSMs are included.
...SNIP...
In the readme.1st I have so far spotted two items that I think need to be
modified. One could be that I do not understand something and the other is
to do with symlink support. The two items are:-
ITEM 1:
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In the readme there is the following paragraph, but I do not think that this
is correct with regards to ME. Charles am I correct or not?
If you have Windows ME, 2000 or XP, images dated before December 2001
may not work properly, so make sure you get new distributions where
possible if you are using a newer Windows release.
ITEM 2:
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I spoted that was missing from the readme.1st was the compatiability issue
with 2.04 in reagrds to symlinks as follows:-
1) 2.04 knows about the new and old symlinks
2) 2.03 and below do not know about the new symlinks
Because of the symlink issues I would suggest that the Compatability with
V2.00 change to something like the following:-
Compatibility with V2.03, V2.02, V2.01 and V2.00
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If you are upgrading from version 2.00 through 2.03 of DJGPP, you should
completely reinstall all the packages you need to use becuase of one or more
of the following issues:-
a) Versions 2.01 and later to handle long command lines (and long
filenames
under Win95), mixing V2.00 programs with those from later versions can cause
very subtle and difficult to debug problems.
b) Versions 2.00 through 2.03 do not support the new symbolic file
linking facility (symlink) and as such cannot resolve the new symlink files,
but 2.04 understands the old and the new symlink files. If mixing 2.0x and
2.04
files you may get subtle failures in performing builds which are difficult
to debug.
c) If you are upgrading from 2.00 through 2.02 of DJGPP on Windows 2000 or
XP,
you should completly reinstall all the packages as these versions do not
support
Windows 2000 or XP.
See the FAQ section 16.6 for more information.
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