From:	ryot AT bigfoot DOT com (George Ryot)
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Subject:	Re: Installing DJGPP
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:

> It was rectified already.  The next release of GCC will have gpp.exe
> instead of gxx.exe.

Does that mean that we will have gcc, gxx and gpp?

> As for cxxfilt, this is not a DJGPP program: two GNU packages come
> with this program.  We cannot remove the program from one of the
> packages, because different people download different packages, as
> their needs dictate.  Users need to excercise some minimal judgement
> and common sense when they see such problems.

Although, as you say, most users should exercise common sense, this
must be a problem that every new user of DJGPP encounters.  A note
about this in readme.1st would eliminate any doubt in case of any
unexplained problems with the installation.  

> (Why is it that people get so picky about identical files overwriting
> each other in the DJGPP archives?  This happens all the time when a
> typical Windows program is installed and overwrites several system
> DLLs, but nobody complains. ;-)

Maybe because DJGPP isn't a typical Windows program and its users
aren't as clueless as a typical Windows user. ;-)
-- 
george

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