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From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT gnu DOT org>
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Subject: Re: cp.exe bug
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> From: "one2001boy AT yahoo DOT com" <one2001boy AT yahoo DOT com>
> Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2004 02:48:27 GMT
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >>From: "one2001boy AT yahoo DOT com" <one2001boy AT yahoo DOT com>
> >>Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 06:58:29 GMT
> >>
> >>I need to uninstall the old version of djgpp first and reinstall
> >>the latest version.
> > 
> > 
> > What for?  You should be able to debug the program no matter what
> > version of DJGPP you have installed.
> 
> The alhpa version of cp.exe works fine (no need to debug).
> 
> Only the beta version of cp.exe has the problem. The source code for 
> cp.exe for both alpha and beta is the same, thus the glibc etc needs to 
> be updated. Right?

We are talking about finding out where in cp the bug happens.  For
this, you only need to establish what line in cp's sources fails to
work.  You don't need to go into the library function's code.