From:	Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
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Subject:	Re: Porting DOS to linux
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Date:	Thu, 07 Sep 2000 15:02:59 GMT
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On Thu, 07 Sep 2000 16:44:33 +0200, Waldemar Schultz
<schultz AT ma DOT tum DOT de> wrote:

>Damian Yerrick schrieb:
>> 1. Get Allegro 3.9.33 tarball from
>>      http://alleg.sourceforge.net/allegro/wip.html
>> 2. Read the Readme and build it.
>
>This version (all3933.zip) seems to have a bug or typo.
>when the make process reaches the point to process the file
>'src/dos/gripfnc.s' it stops with about 20 error messages like this:
>
>c:/temp\ccy5YWlc.s:262: Error: operands given don't match any known 386
>instruction
>
>When I change line #22 in 'src/dos/gripfnc.s' reading
>
>#define GRIP_CALL             lcall *GLOBL(GRIP_Thunk) + 8
>to
>#define GRIP_CALL             lcall  GLOBL(GRIP_Thunk) + 8
>                                    ^
>(without the asterisk) as it reads in earlier versions, make runs fine.
>to whom it concerns.

Older versions (lcall foo) are written for the Binutils 2.8.x syntax;
newer versions (lcall *foo) are for Binutils 2.9.1.  Allegro 3.9.34
will automatically handle this in the build scripts.

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