Date: Tue, 07 Mar 1995 19:11:24 +0100 (MET)
From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku AT gilberto DOT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
Subject: Re: ld problems
To: kunst AT prl DOT philips DOT nl
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu (user alias)
Reply-To: Christoph Kukulies <kuku AT gilberto DOT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>

> 
> 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.

I just looked and had FILES=80 in my config.sys anyway.

> 
> Pieter Kunst (kunst AT prl DOT philips DOT nl)
> 

--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku AT gil DOT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de
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