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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 16:42:13 +0200
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Subject: Re: gzip-1.3.2 alpha port available for testing.
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On 2 Dec 2001 at 10:59, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> 
> On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Andrew Cottrell wrote:
> 
> > > Sorry, the binary package is not 2K and XP compatible.
> > > I have configured and compiled it using stock simtelnet tools
> > (djdev203.zip).
> > > I have no access to 2K nor to XP so I have not tried to compile and test
> > it
> > > with the latest CVS libc. This must be done by you.
> > 
> > Charles has produced a patch file for the 2.03 DJGPP LIBC source that is at
> > Simtel that updates the LIBC to be compatible with 2K and XP and fix some of
> > the nasty bugs.
> 
> The patched libc 2.03 was not yet officially released.  I'm not sure it's 
> a good idea to base official ports on it, until Charles releases the 
> updated djdev203.zip.

It has already happened:

gcc-3.0.2 binaries for DJGPP is built with patched 
djdev203.zip (7 October version of patches). So these binaries should
work on Win2k/XP and should not leak descriptors also onb Win9X

Andris