Date: Thu, 2 May 1996 14:56:59 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Stewart McDonald <smcdonal AT pcug DOT org DOT au>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Is this in FAQ?
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On Thu, 2 May 1996, Stewart McDonald wrote:

> But how is that obvious from the compiler's apparent inability to locate 
> the crt0.o file? How should joe average programmer know that borland 
> products don't need to be in any order, but djgpp does?

That's not true.  If you have both Borland C and Turbo C, you will have 
similar problems: the preprocessors are both called cpp.exe, the linkers 
are both called tlink.exe, the libraries have the same names and even the 
startup modules (c0s.obj, c0m.obj etc.) are all called the same.  It's 
only when you use C and Pascal that you probably can get away with a 
naive approach.  Using several C compilers at the same time always 
involves such risks because some programs are called the same but have 
dirrent functionalities and subtleties.

Having said that, I didn't quite understand the specific problem with 
crt0.o.  Can you describe what command line did you try and what error 
message did you see?