From: kunst AT prl DOT philips DOT nl
Subject: Re: ld problems
To: kuku AT gilberto DOT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de (Christoph P. Kukulies)
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 1995 13:43:44 +0100 (MET)
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu (DJGPP users list)

Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku AT gil DOT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de writes:
>
> Lately I've run into much trouble using djgpp 1.12m3:
> 
> ld works very unreliable. Symbols are not found although
> nm shows them explicitly in the .o files.
> 
> Also ar/ranlib behaves very strange when run in a DOS box under Win96,
                                                                  ^^^^^
								   ;-)

> i.e. using DPMI while it works ok in normal DOS7 (Win booted in DOS mode).
> ar/ranlib die on access denied on the .a file they are working on.


Hello Chris,

Did you also try a DOS box under 'good old' Windows 3.1 ?

I had this error too, once.
The problem was with the number of files in my CONFIG.SYS file.
When I increased the number of files (FILES=20) to (FILES=40) all worked.

Pieter Kunst (kunst AT prl DOT philips DOT nl)