Date: Mon, 31 Jan 94 16:45:00 PST
From: Elston <elston DOT tsw AT atic-mhs DOT elan DOT af DOT mil>
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Reply-To: <elston DOT tsw AT atic-mhs DOT elan DOT af DOT mil>
Subject: Problems with DJGPP 1.11 (GAS2.11)

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I have sent this message out twice before but our network has been
down.  I am trying this again from another source.  Perhaps the
connection will work better here.

I recently installed DJGPP 1.11 on my PC.  I immediately started the
tests in the TESTS subdirectory and the compiler failed on the first
test with the following linker error:

c:/mark/djgpp/lib/crt0.o: malformed input file (not rel or archive)

I have tried to run objdump on lib/crt0.o and it gives me a similar
error (not an object file).  In fact I can compile any .c (or .cc)
file to an object file and then run objdump on it and I still get the
same error.

I have a previous version of DJGPP (1.10).  The linker from 1.11 (and
objdump, objcopy etc.) understands the previous version's object files
but not the ones created by GAS211. So it would appear that the new
version of as.exe is not producing object files the new (or any other)
version of ld.exe can understand and link with.

BTW.  I have a 25MHz 386 with 4MB RAM and about 70MB free for swap
space, etc.

What seems to be the problem here?  Any clues.  Have I missed
something obvious?

I got the zip files from wuarchive.wustl.edu in the directory
systems/ibmpc/msdos/djgpp.  The files we are talking about are:

   djeoe111.zip, djdev111.zip, gcc254bn.zip, gas211bn.zip, bnu22bn.zip,
   djdoc111.zip, txi210bn.zip, gpp245.zip, objc245.zip, bsn121bn.zip,
   flx238bn.zip, gzp124bn.zip, zip50bn.zip

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.
Mark
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Mark Elston
elston AT edwards-tems DOT af DOT mil
             


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