From: George Foot <mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: RHIDE linker problems - HELP!
Date: 26 Jan 1998 13:01:04 GMT
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On Mon, 26 Jan 1998 13:24:11 +0200 (IST) in comp.os.msdos.djgpp Eli
Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:

: How about printing a warning (which doesn't prevent attempt on 
: compilation) along the following lines:

:   Warning: default directories not found and DJDIR variable is not set!

: Such a warning should be printed when GCC has failed to stat the default 
: built-in paths and didn't find $DJDIR to be defined.

That sounds to me like a better solution; there's no reason to stop
the compilation when it might (possibly) succeed, and a warning
message ought to be enough to cause people to check their DJGPP
setting.

Would this have to go into the gcc sources as maintained by the FSF?
If so, do they mind having DOS-specific features added?  I get the
impression that the FSF in general don't take DOS at all seriously...

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