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From: huntercr AT cs DOT purdue DOT edu (Charles Randolph Hunter)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: I can't even get it installed!(NOT FUNNY damn it!)
Date: 21 Jun 1995 12:58:09 -0500
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ashley AT alumni DOT caltech DOT edu (Allen M. Ashley) writes:

>I have tried to respond to another post and my mail bounced. I would
>like to ask here why it should take 45 minutes to install a compiler?
>Why should it take 3000 files or 500 files? I think a distribution
>package should include:

>1. cc.exe
well, you need gcc.exe cc1.exe as.exe cpp.exe to get that functionality you 
know
>2. library module
which ones????
>3. stdio.h and a few other header files
a *few* other header files?
>4. env.bat to set up the environment
it is basically already set up
>5. some doc files and examples
there are many many of these... read them.
>6. GO32

have you taken a look at gcc on another host ever? There are many files
and many executables that are necessary. That's just the way it works.
DJGPP is meant for porting UNIX apps and providing a 32bit C compiler
for DOS. 


>Let the developer's package include source and make capability. I
>don't care to twiddle with the compiler.
If you don't care to twiddle, then you don't want GCC.

I still don't see where you are getting 3000 files... you didn't perchance
unzip all the source files did you? 8-)

		-- Charles Hunter

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>Allen Ashley        ashley AT alumni DOT caltech DOT edu
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