Mail Archives: djgpp/2000/08/28/20:40:00
On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Eli Zaretskii spoke the following immortal words,
>
> On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, Damian Yerrick wrote:
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> > >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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