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From: "Andris Pavenis" <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 13:52:43 +0300
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Subject: Re: v2.03: wrapping up
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On 26 Apr 99, at 13:34, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> 
> On Mon, 26 Apr 1999, Andris Pavenis wrote:
> 
> > I have met references to libc version for example in sources of 
> > DOSEMU-0.99.X
> 
> DOSEmu is part of Linux, exactly as REDIR or DJTAR.

I don't agree.

DOSEMU and libc are separate projects that are not bound together
and are being released separatelly. One can build DOSEMU with 
old libc5, glibc-2.0.X or new glibc-2.1 and it should work with all them.
(the same with kernel versions in reasonable limits).

So we should treat DOSEMU as application but not part of Linux system.

> I was talking about applications that aren't part of the core 
> distribution, and are not released synchronously with djdev.
> 

As I said DOSEMU is such example. I cannot mention more examples as 
I'm usually not grepping sources for libc version tests unless there is some
related problem.

What is slightly different with Linux is that there is much more problems
configuring packages for DJGPP than for Linux (DJGPP support in autoconf
is far from being perfect). Otherwise I don't think there are so much differences.

Andris