Date: Tue, 7 Feb 1995 03:34:13 -0400 (AST)
From: Bill Davidson <bdavidson AT ra DOT isisnet DOT com>
Subject: Re: problems with contrib sources.. should this be happening?
To: Charles Hunter <huntercr AT cs DOT purdue DOT edu>
Cc: djgpp mailing list <DJGPP AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu>



On Mon, 6 Feb 1995, Charles Hunter wrote:

> a compiling party and have noticed that almost all of the contrib
> sources have errors... most are not too bad and easily fixed, but
> should this be happening? I mean these were written FOR djgpp...
> is it too much to ask for a clean compile ? :)
> I am up to date on the patches and everything.. what gives?
> 
> 			--Charles
I have noticed the same thing; most problems are just typos, easily fixed 
but they shouldn't be there.  I know that it is written somewhere that 
djgpp is _not_ a system on which to learn C, but there are beginners out 
there using it (like me!).
On the other hand, it's free and you get what you pay for!  Actually, in 
this case you get one hell of a lot more than you pay for... DOS 
extender, compilers, assembler, linker, librarian, libs, etc.  If this 
was a commercial package it would not be cheap and we get it free because 
a few dedicated individuals think writing this stuff is fun.
Yeah, when you get a new package you should be able to just type make, 
but as long as the problems are at a level that even I can fix, what the 
heck.  Besides, it gives one a sense of connectedness to the program if 
one at least reads the headers!
Bill Davidson
bdavidson AT ra DOT isisnet DOT com