Mail Archives: djgpp-workers/2002/10/19/00:23:58
> 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.
It is correct. There were some interrupts which were assumed to work
on ME if LFN=n (such as under DOS without Windows) but they were only
supported under Windows, so would fail in some rare cases.
> Because of the symlink issues I would suggest that the Compatability with
> V2.00 change to something like the following:-
I'm still not convinced the symlink incompatibility is a big deal. I
suspect it will only be an issue with pure unix ports when testing and
installing. Since DJGPP symlinks are not supported by anything else,
I suspect they won't be used heavily (I mix non-DJGPP toolchain images,
for example). But I think this will be discovered in the alpha and
beta stages (I'll certainly mix them...) - so I would save writing the
warnings until we know how severe the problem will be.
(I've even got some images built with DJGPP 1.11 I've never bothered to
rebuild...)
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