Via: uk.ac.aston; Tue, 19 Jan 1993 10:53:38 +0000
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
From: John Fletcher <ECM9093 AT pcmail DOT aston DOT ac DOT uk>
Date: 19 Jan 93 10:52:57 GMT
Subject: Re: GCC16 not the same as GCC
Reply-To: J DOT P DOT Fletcher AT aston DOT ac DOT uk

I am forwarding this, with permission.  John

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From:       Chris Boucher <C DOT C DOT Boucher AT soton DOT ac DOT uk>
Date:       Mon, 18 Jan 93 10:19:45 GMT
To:         J DOT P DOT Fletcher AT aston DOT ac DOT uk
Subject:    Re: GCC16 not the same as GCC

John Fletcher writes:
> I am having problems with the 16bit version of the GCC.EXE not
>
> [deleted]
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> behaving the same as the 32bit version.
> When I run it with GCC(16bit) the two entries "-LS:./lib" on the
> ld.exe line are missing (I'lld like to show you, but the GO32 2r1
> parameter doesn't work the same, so I can't redirect all the 16bit
> version output to a file.)  NOTE: The 16bit version DOES find crt0.o.
>
> [deleted]

This problem arises because gcc checks that each of the directories in
the LIBRARY_PATH environment variable exist before passing them as
command line options to ld.  This fails for your network drive because
Novell doesn't emulate the stat() call on directories.  I wrote a
version of stat() which works around this problem and DJ built it into
go32, hence GCC(32bit) works fine.

If you want to get GCC(16bit) working then all that you have to do is
change the calls to stat() with ones to unixlike_stat() and link with
ustat.c (in with the GO32 sources). The problem is, of course, that
you'll need a copy of Turbo C (I don't). I just stick with GCC(32bit).

Chris.

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