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From:	"Schumacher, Gordon" <gordon_schumacher AT maxtor DOT com>
To:	"'djgpp AT delorie DOT com'" <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject:	RE: soft link
Date:	Thu, 20 May 2004 17:08:18 -0600
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# Subject: Re: soft link
# Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 19:53:32 +1000
# Message-ID: <n8h6a0dlcmm72e1k47r0du9cgla2t22a5d AT 4ax DOT com>
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# 
# >Er.  That could be part of the problem - I failed to understand the
# >difference between the tools on Clio and the tools on the 
# >main site...
# >So many pieces and versions to keep track of!
# >Perhaps *that's* the reason for my mystery BASH crash then...
# You ignored the options, so you are on your own. I only have a small
# amount of time to try help people, but I am only human and do make
# mistakes or only know so much.

I did, as I said, eventually figure it out and run as you said - at
least, I believe I have.  Perhaps I should detail exactly what I'm
running with, most recently, trimmed down to the absolutely smallest
subset possible in a new test:

ftp://clio.rice.edu/djgpp/win2k/djdev204_alpha.zip
ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/alpha/v2gnu/gcc340b.zip
ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/alpha/v2gnu/gpp340b.zip
ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/alpha/v2gnu/txt20b.zip
ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/alpha/v2gnu/bsh205bb.zip
(or, alternately ftp://clio.rice.edu/djgpp/win2k/bsh205bb.zip)

Note that for this I don't actually have Binutils installed, and it
complains about "cannot exec 'as'".  But for this that's okay.

With the version of BASH from Delorie, I get the "cannot allocate
792674112 bytes" error.  With the version from Clio, it segfaults,
just like the 2.03 version.

Am I still missing something here?  My understanding from your
original message was:
For GNU tools, Delorie's site is newer than Clio, *BUT*...
...for DJDev tools, Clio is newer than Delorie's.

Hence, the first configuration listed there should be the right one,
to my understanding, and indeed it comes *closer* to working.  (But
still doesn't - and that's okay, I've been too buried in other
emergency stuff to look at it much.)

I am certainly not ignoring options by intent... I just initially
misunderstood, and when I realized that (i.e., saw the second post
on the topic), I attempted to correct my mistake - but it doesn't
seem to have helped the problem any.  I more than understand time
limitations, believe me! - that's why I'm in the fix I'm in! - so
that's part of why I'm trying to help out by feeding more
information along here.  But I have to understand *how* to help in
order to do so.

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