Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/10/28/14:59:58
Date sent: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 18:28:25 +0000 (GMT)
From: George Foot <george DOT foot AT merton DOT oxford DOT ac DOT uk>
Subject: Re: Repost: Disgruntled DJGPP programmer, was Newbie Question
> On Wed, 28 Oct 1998 ajschrotenboer AT lycosmail DOT com wrote:
>
> > For example, I was trying (again) today to build EGCS 1.1b.
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that's an alpha package
> that is not ready for general use yet. In any case IIRC it
> requires you to use the 2.02 beta library (released yesterday).
I think it can already treated as beta and should be used together
with 2.02. I have only some known DJGPP related problems with it:
- there are problems with exceptions (also -fsjlj-exceptions
seems to be broken in egcs-1.1 at all)
- the problem with Novel discussed recently and fixed
last update of DJGPP port of gcc-2.8.1 (some days ago).
I haven't rebuilt egcs-1.1 for DJGPP since I uploaded
archives in begin of September so perhaps it will be fixed
when I'll do it next time.
Also:
I did rather many source changes before building egcs-1.1
however I included bash script that does these modifications
in source archive of egcs-1.1 for DJGPP so no manual edditing
is needed.
>
> > I think it's really pitiful that they can't even make a proper makefile for
> > the DJGPP platform. The configure script doesn't seem to work for me. The
> > makefile that it creates doesn't work. Can anybody tell me what's
> > wrong?????????????
It is necessary to set some environment variables before running
configure script (the same about make) for such packages as gcc,
egcs and many others.
>
> IIRC configure scripts are awkward in DOS. DJGPP ports usually
> come preconfigured, so you shouldn't need to use the configure
> script. In any case, I thought that a configure.bat was
> generally provided instead.
I think no one can touched configur.bat for long time so I'm afraid
it's terribly outdated and broken.
Andris
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