From:	Andrew Cottrell <andnews AT ihug DOT com DOT oz DOT au>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: NTVDM.EXE crashing in Windows 2000 SP3, Windows XP, with DJGPP 2.03 building vim
Date:	Sun, 30 Mar 2003 14:47:30 +1000
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>It is wonderful to get such prompt action. It confirms the hope with
>which I think I have joined the djgpp-workers mailing list.
>(There is behaviour in the 2.03 makes which I think is bugged. make -n
>goes into an infinite loop with the following in W2K SP3 with cmd.exe as
>the "shell". It works as intended with W95 and COMMAND.COM. --directory
>fixes it. The responsible developer is suspicious of a technique viewed
>as "unportable".

>I recognise that a new thread might have been better for this. I am
>hoping to avoid doing any more work on it. (It is incidental to my work
>on vim.)

Allot of the binary packages available from Simtel are NOT 2K/XP
compatible. 

The issues with the LIBC that they were built with have been fixed in
either the 2.03 refresh or the 2.04 beta. You have two choices as far
as I can see, 1) rebuild the programs that have issues with the 2.03
refresh or 2) Use the updated files available from the 2.04 test page.
Where you do find that the program is not available for download from
the 2.04 page then I would advise re-building it as there are some
issues with mixing 2.03 & 2.04 files with regards to symlinks, 2.04
knows about the 2.03 symlinks, but 2.03 does not know about the new
2.04 symlinks.

Andrew

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