Message-Id: <199910101349.PAA05103@public.ndh.com>
From: "Felix Natter" <fnatter AT gmx DOT net>
Organization: home.felix
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 13:49:19 +0200
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT
Subject: Re: problems gcc2.95.1 with binutils 2.81 ?
CC: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
References: <wkhfk0lvtv DOT fsf AT mail DOT ndh DOT net>
In-reply-to: <Pine.SUN.3.91.991010132030.19886M-100000@is>
X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.11)
Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

On 10 Oct 99, at 13:22, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> The reason for the recommendation is because many beta-testers of this
> port use Binutils 2.9.1, so this configuration is better tested.
> 
> Binutils 2.8.1 should work just fine.  Make sure you have DJGPP v2.02
> installed, though; that one *is* required (i.e., v2.01 will not work).

this is from egcs.cygnus.com/install/:

i?86-*-linux*

You will need binutils-2.9.1.0.15 or newer for exception handling to work.

If you receive Signal 11 errors when building on GNU/Linux, then it is 
possible you have a hardware problem. Further
information on this can be found on www.bitwizard.nl.

doesn't this apply for DOS as well ?

--
Felix Natter