To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com References: Message-Id: From: "Leonid Pauzner" Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 02:57:59 +0400 (MSD) Subject: Re: DJGPP on drive c: and sources on drive d: PROBLEM Lines: 45 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk Thanks, > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > | John M. Aldrich | "A woman is not property, and hus- | > | aka Fighteer I | bands who think otherwise are living | > | mailto:fighteer AT cs DOT com | in a dreamworld." | > | http://www.cs.com/fighteer | - Lazarus Long | > --------------------------------------------------------------------- It was happened my sources tree was in d:\dev subdirectory and it interferred with UNIX /dev... Anyway, I think this should be locked somehow for DOS, by checking drive letter for example. Leonid. > > OK, I send you logs, pkziped. > > > > (1) "ok" for src tree at c:\djgpp and > > (2) exactly the same src tree moved to d:\dev (fails) > > Seems to be makefile.dos cannot be found... > > > > Also, I enclosed there makefile.dos, batchs and my environments. > > I think I know what the problem is... and it's somewhat of an annoying > one that stems from the way DJGPP processes Unix-style device names. > Any time you try to access a file in the /dev directory, DJGPP's library > code assumes that you are talking about a system device and tries to > read it that way. This feature exists for compatibility with Unixy > programs. > > To see if this is the problem, try moving your files to some directory > on d: other than /dev. Or try renaming /dev to something else. If I'm > right, you'll be able to compile. > > -- > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > | John M. Aldrich | "A woman is not property, and hus- | > | aka Fighteer I | bands who think otherwise are living | > | mailto:fighteer AT cs DOT com | in a dreamworld." | > | http://www.cs.com/fighteer | - Lazarus Long | > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >