Mail Archives: djgpp/2000/12/20/04:02:35
On Tue, 19 Dec 2000 unuroboros AT my-deja DOT com wrote:
> I had a hunch it might be something like that, but I had no idea
> where to look.
The DJGPP FAQ list would be one place. Section 8.8 there seems to
explain your case.
> And I'm still too green to be able to dig into something like 'man
> gcc'.
You don't need to mess with the man pages, they are not the most
efficient means of finding the information.
I suggest to read the section in the README.1ST file named "Reading
the documentation, or A Crash Course in Info", it lists some useful
Info commands that will help you to find information in any Info
manual, including the DJGPP FAQ. It also says what to do if you have
no idea in what Info manual to look for some particular information.
For some reason, these very useful features are completely missed by
many users, who then spend many hours looking for the information (or
asking here ;-).
> By any chance is there an
> O'Reilly (or similar style) book on DJGPP or (almost as good) gcc that
> you would recommend to a newbie? And not just for the basics -
> something that would have answered this question for me, too, so that I
> wouldn't have had to bother the newsgroup? ;}
It's called "The DJGPP FAQ List", available as v2/faq230b.zip from the
same place you get DJGPP. There you will have 200-odd pages
chock-full of advice, explanations, descriptions of subtle bugs and
features, and code examples which will certainly save many of your
problems. You don't need to read the entire FAQ (although it's
recommended), but at least use the index-searching capabilities of any
decent Info browser to look for solutions to problems you might
encounter.
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