From:	Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT praline DOT no DOT NeoSoft DOT com>
Subject:	Re: Problem with GRX-1.03m1
To:	bdavidson AT ra DOT isisnet DOT com (Bill Davidson)
Date:	Tue, 21 Mar 1995 07:22:57 -0600 (CST)
Cc:	dsinghal AT goober DOT mbhs DOT edu, djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

> Contributed programs like GRX are *wonderful* and enhance the djgpp 
> system, but is it really too much trouble for the contributors to make 
> sure that they will compile as provided?  Sometimes I am editing 

GRX worked fine when it was released - Blame the GNU folk!  Comments in
assembler used to work fine without a preprocessor.  Then some brilliant
person decided to de-commit this feature, who needs backward compatibility
anyway?

GRX also pre-dates the GNU make provided with DJGPP, which is one of the
reasons it was not used (the other being the fact the package also 
compiles under TurboC, so it was reasonable to use the TC make at that time).

Evolving DJGPP and GNU code are the reason many contributed packages don't
build "just right" out of the box.

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