Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 06:05:02 +0600 (LKT)
From: Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel <kalum AT lintux DOT cx>
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: getopt_long?
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On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Eli Zaretskii spoke the following immortal words,

> 
> On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, Damian Yerrick wrote:
> 
> > >No, the LGPL means *you* must provide the latest DJGPP and glibc.
> > 
> > Provide DJGPP?
> > "the materials to be distributed need not include anything that is
> > normally distributed (in either source or binary form) with the major
> > components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the operating system..."
> >             ^^^^^^^^
> 
> DJGPP is not a compiler neither an OS kernel; it's a library.

Most intros I have read about DJGPP, refer to it as "DJ Delories port of
the GCC compiler to MSDOS". So I guess that in all fairness DJGPP is a
compiler. The description of DJGPP as merely a "library", tends not to be
a fair description or a complete view of DJGPP IMHO.

Best Wishes,
Grendel

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