Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 11:25:30 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: George Foot <george DOT foot AT merton DOT oxford DOT ac DOT uk>
cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: djgpp alpha 980628
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On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, George Foot wrote:

> > - If rebuilding libc indeed requires stubediting make.exe, how about
> >   doing it automatically as part of the procedure?
> 
> Does it require that?  I didn't need to; but I'm using an old Make 
> (3.7.5).

I don't think it depends on the Make version.  If your environment is
small, it could be that the long list of file names passed to `ar'
when it makes libc.a fits in 16KB.  The warning was in src/makefile,
so I just went out and stubedited Make.

> > - "Load error: no DOS memory" when compiling posix/unistd/execlp.c
> >   (typing "make" after that picks up where the previous one left
> >   off).  Seems like Windows 95 DPMI host is leaking DOS memory.
> >   Suggest to mention that in the instructions.
> 
> On one build, I received "Load error: can't switch mode".  Rerunning 
> Make solved this, so it's probably the same problem with the DPMI 
> host, or at least something similar.

The difference between the messages might be due to my stubediting
Make (which then uses up more conventional memory), and with different
CONFIG.SYS/AUTOEXEC.BAT settings.

> Where are the instructions you mention?  I couldn't find any.

src/makefile.

> I built it using v2.01, by creating a fresh djgpp directory, 
> installing djlsr202 there and copying the include files from 
> djdev202.

Same here.

> It feels slightly awkward to me to have to get djdev when 
> I'm just going to recreate most of its contents.

You need include.

> > - fsdb and stubedit emit warnings.
> 
> I noticed quite a few isolated warnings from various files; if nobody 
> else has fixed them by the time I get around to it then I'll send 
> patches.

Warnings in posix/regex were fixed by a patch submitted by Nate.  I
submitted a patch for stubedit.  Feel free to correct the rest.