Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 12:59:37 -0500
Message-Id: <199901191759.MAA10780@envy.delorie.com>
From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
To: tony AT nt DOT tuwien DOT ac DOT at
CC: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
In-reply-to: <4.1.19990119181302.00a0a440@hal.nt.tuwien.ac.at> (message from
	Anton Helm on Tue, 19 Jan 1999 18:53:25 +0100)
Subject: Re: djcrx202
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[redirected to djgpp-workers - DJ]

> But I still don't believe it. Did you use the makefile of djcrx202
> to install binutils-2.9.1 ?

No, I used the Makefiles that come with binutils.  Just do "configure
--target=i586-pc-msdosdjgpp; make"

> >egcs builds its own libgcc.a, for example.
> 
> I don't know much about ecgs.
> but gcc-2.8.1 doesn't. If I interprete the relevant parts in the
> Install file correctly, this is the expected behavior.
> It says also that the build should stop gracefully, but it doesn't.
> (tries to make libgcc.a and fails)

Not quite.  gcc can build its own libgcc.a for i386 platforms because
it knows how to open-code all the math functions that libgcc provides.

> I suspected something like that. Ever tried to unzip at DEC-UX ?
> Anyway, I think it is easier to pack it by hand once.

I pack it a lot more than once, since it's part of the regular
distribution system, which gets used a lot for alphas and betas.

> The number of people who want to unpack it is greater then 1 (hopefully) :-)
> So they have to copy it to a dos-pc, unpack it, repack it with 
> GNU tar and gzip (djgpp) copy back to UX-host an unpack.

No, they can use InfoZip under unix.  Heck, I *build* djgpp under Unix
that way.

> * system make has to be GNU make (makefile usees "make" explicitly)
> * there has to be a yes program (Solaris hasn't)

I think these are reasonable assumptions, and easily handled.  As for
assuming Linux, no, they more likely assume SGI IRIX, which is what I
build djgpp on.