Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/08/09/16:05:08
Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> 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
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