From: Jason Green <news AT jgreen4 DOT fsnet DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: gcc error while compiling Allegro
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 22:27:41 +0000
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bill simpson <wsimpson AT MailAndNews DOT com> wrote:

> Can anyone please give me suggestions about how to get djgpp/allegro
> installed?  Maybe try an older version of djgpp (gcc, et al)? This is
> apparently a problem in the gcc compiler...

Does this always happen at the same place in the allegro code?  If
not, it is more likely to be a hardware problem.

FWIW, all3934.zip builds fine here with BASH in a dos box under Win95.

You could try cwsdpmi4 to see if that makes a difference.

> BTW I am running freeBSD/dos dual boot, am grabbing files under freeBSD
> and cp'ing them over to /dos partition. The files seem quite OK, but I am
> mentioning this just in case it might cause some obscure errors.