From: ryot AT bigfoot DOT com (George Ryot) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Installing DJGPP Message-ID: <37aed976.9901147@news.clara.net> References: X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.5/32.452 X-No-Archive: yes MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 27 Date: Sun, 08 Aug 1999 20:12:50 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 195.8.92.250 X-Complaints-To: abuse AT clara DOT net X-Trace: nnrp4.clara.net 934143170 195.8.92.250 (Sun, 08 Aug 1999 21:12:50 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 08 Aug 1999 21:12:50 BST To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Eli Zaretskii wrote: > It was rectified already. The next release of GCC will have gpp.exe > instead of gxx.exe. Does that mean that we will have gcc, gxx and gpp? > As for cxxfilt, this is not a DJGPP program: two GNU packages come > with this program. We cannot remove the program from one of the > packages, because different people download different packages, as > their needs dictate. Users need to excercise some minimal judgement > and common sense when they see such problems. Although, as you say, most users should exercise common sense, this must be a problem that every new user of DJGPP encounters. A note about this in readme.1st would eliminate any doubt in case of any unexplained problems with the installation. > (Why is it that people get so picky about identical files overwriting > each other in the DJGPP archives? This happens all the time when a > typical Windows program is installed and overwrites several system > DLLs, but nobody complains. ;-) Maybe because DJGPP isn't a typical Windows program and its users aren't as clueless as a typical Windows user. ;-) -- george