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Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1998 23:44:07 +1200
From: Bill Currie <bill AT taniwha DOT tssc DOT co DOT nz>
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Subject: Re: Some notes about DJDEV202.ZIP
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Robert Hoehne wrote:
> Please excuse my question, but have you ever tried gcc 2.8x??
> There is this already implemented!! You can run gcc there without
> setting any paths to the default DJGPP directories (except contrib/...)

Fair enough!! I haven't used DJGPP since December (nor DOS much for that
matter).  So, no, I haven't tried 2.8x on DJGPP (but I did port it to
the big-endian i860:)

> All that discussion here comes from the fact, that gcc 2.8x
> is much better in handling the default DJGPP directories and
> only the gcc 2.7x users will need the settings of default
> search paths.

Umm, then just what is the problem? if 2.8 looks in the right places
(with $DJDIR/* coming after the version dependent dirs, and 2.7x only
looks in $DJDIR/*, then I can't see any room for incompatabilities.

Hmm, just had a look back and the problem seems to be if $DJDIR/* is in
djgpp.env.  Ach, the only solutions I can see (probably unacceptable)
are either for 2.8x to ignore LIBRARY_PATH and C_INCLUDE_PATH, or strip
$DJDIR/* out of them.  Both seem kind of bletch.

Bill
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