From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: installation problems with libc.a
Date:	Wed, 19 Jan 2000 20:20:44 +0200
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Darren wrote:
> 
> Sorry for the obvious newbie questions I am having trouble installing djgpp
> on an i486 running MSDOS version 5.  I used pkzip but recieved an error when
> unzipping djdevxxx.zip and it had to be recovered using zipfix.  Now I try
> to compile and get the following:
> C:/djgpp/lib/libc.a: could not read symbols: Malformed archive
> ld: Return status(1)

Sounds like you downloaded it incorrectly.  Did you remember to specify a
binary connection?

In any case, if you cannot unzip the file without zipfix, you should download
the file again.  zipfix cannot recover from all problems, and you can indeed
have a corrupted library.

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