Date: Fri, 2 Sep 94 18:53:11 CDT
From: "Cave Newt" <roe2 AT midway DOT uchicago DOT edu>
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: 1.12.maint1 - fourth try

> While on the subject of the utility programs: Perhaps the utilities
> using the broken 1.12 stat() and time-functions should be included
> in the maintenance release ? I've noticed that the timestamps 
> produced by diff are not correct, because they were linked with the
> old 1.12 libs. Not sure if this affects make as well ...

While (still) on the subject of utilities in general and make in par-
ticular:  are all of these maintained by DJ himself, or are there others
helping out?  I'm both curious and have some bugs to report. :-)

Meanwhile:  make 3.71 fixes the slash/backslash recursive-make bug and
the continuation-line bug, but it now is broken with respect to quotes.
That is, a (recursive) makefile line of the form

	$(MAKE) foo CFLAGS="-DFOO -DBAR blah blah"

fails in one of two ways:  either the entire contents of the quotes are
ignored (reported by a user to me) or else the quotes are ignored and
the second make tries to interpret the -DBAR as a *make* option.  I re-
ported this directly to DJ a while ago but haven't pushed it because of
the more important 1.12m1 release and because it's not really part of 
djgpp proper.  But if it could be fixed sometime after 1.12m1 is released,
I'd be happy. :-)  I have had to include make 3.69 on our ftp site just 
so djgpp users can compile UnZip.  Unfortunately there don't appear to 
be any completely functional DOS ports of GNU make 3.71 just yet (I've 
tried three).

Also, has anyone else had a funny error parsing the specs file when using
gcc-rm?  It gives me some goofy error about a mangled file after 338
characters (which turns out to be at the end of the predefined-macros
line).  There's one more non-blank line in the file after that.  Perhaps 
I converted EOLs by mistake when unpacking?  I'll check some more.

>> Let me know if it's finally good enough to make it official.

> Go for it.

Yes, I'm happy with it.

> And a big "Thank You" for doing this!

Seconded.

Greg Roelofs