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Since it doesn't seem that comm.a is part of DJGPP, I guess I just
misinterpretted the error.  It said:
C:\DJGPP\BIN/ar.exe: ../../../lib/comm.a: No such file or directory (ENOENT)

I was thinking that it was looking in the djgpp lib folder for this file. 
However, I now know that it was looking in the sources lib folder.  I've now
posted to a more appropriate group.  Sorry I sounded a little impatient there. 
Next time I'll post more info so as not to be so cryptic.  Talk to y'all later.

-David C.

Jason Green wrote:
> 
> David Cleaver <davidis AT ou DOT edu> wrote:
> 
> > > Reading some of the threads recently made me check to see what my version of gcc
> > > was, well, you guessed it, it was 2.8.1.   I've just finished downloading what I
> > > believe to be all the files needed to update to gcc 2.95.2.  However, when I
> > > compile a program that is supposed to be compile-able with this latest release
> > > it tells me that I am missing a file.  It says that I am missing comm.a?  Can
> > > someone please tell me what comm.a is and what .zip it is included in so I can
> > > download it?  Thank you for your time.
> 
> > Has no one ever heard of a library called comm.a?  I am asking in the wrong
> > place (or a wrong question)?  Some feedback would be appreciated.
> 
> You don't really give enough information.  Please at least give the
> exact command line you use to compile and the exact errors you get.
> 
> How did you upgrade?  Uninstall/install each package, or wipe out the
> whole directory tree and reinstall everything from scratch?
> 
> AFAIK comm.a is not part of either version of GCC, or even DJGPP.  It
> sounds like you had some other package that included comm.a and this
> got lost as part of the re-install.  If we knew what program you are
> trying to compile then someone could stab a guess at where the library
> came from originally.

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