Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/11/07/01:44:58
On Wed, 6 Nov 1996, A. Sinan Unur wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii said:
>
>> " Will somebody with a few minutes to spare please change these two
>> offending lines in Allegro distribution and upload the fixed zip file to
>> DJ's /incoming directory? Please?? This threatens to become a FAQ, but
>> I'm too ashamed to put it there, since it's a ridiculous problem.
>> Thanks.
>
> eli, i don't understand your attitude ...
I don't have any attitude, unless wanting to improve DJGPP can be called
``attitude''.
Sorry, I thought I made myself clear enough, and in small words, but I
will rephrase. The problem with compiling Allegro appeared as result of
upgrading DJGPP to Binutils 2.7, where the assembler is less tolerant to
operand/instruction mismatches. The fix to Allegro is trivial, but we
are out of luck because its author isn't available. I think it's a shame
that such a simple problem doesn't get solved, especially since it bugs
so many people (Allegro is a very popular package). So I've asked for a
volunteer to make this simple patch and submit it to DJ Delorie so that
Allegro distribution on SimTel could be updated. If nobody can invest
that much in improving DJGPP (rather than having the flood of questions
about this same problem), then that's too bad, but so be it.
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