From:	pavenis AT lanet DOT lv
Message-ID:	<B0000089998@stargate.astr.lu.lv>
To:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date:	Wed, 9 Jun 1999 17:42:35 +0300
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Subject:	prerelease of gcc-2.95
CC:	dj AT delorie DOT com
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Reply-To:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com

Currently I can build latest snapshots of egcs stable tree (gcc-2.95-
branch) for DJGPP without serious problems in system that 
supports LFN (I did some work to rename files that doesn't follow 
MS-DOS fine naming conventions in source archives, but it's still 
far from being complete). 

Therefore some questions:
	- there are 2 languages that were not supported earlier (egcs-   
       1.1.2 and before): chill and java. 

I know nothing about chill.The compiler and runtime library builds 
for DJGPP without problem but I don't have any example to test 
and don't know whether we need it at all.

About java support in gcc. There is no runtime library in egcs 
source archive. There is separate runtime library available from
sourceware.cygnus.com but as I understand it's in rather 
develoment stage. Should we build binary archives for java.
I also haven't done any tests with it.

About GPC. GPC requires to apply pach to gcc sources and as far 
as I have tested even patches from 19990409 alpha version does 
not apply cleanly to gcc-2.95 prereleases (I tested that only in April,
but not after that, but I think it's unlikely problems will disappear).
So perhaps it would be needed to contact GPC maintainers for this
purpose

One more question to DJ. Perhaps as with egcs-1.1.2 prerelease 
binaries it would be nice to put archives on ftp.delorie.com. I can 
put here C and C++ compiler binaries (about 4Mb), but full source 
and binary archives (>15Mb) would be too much.

Andris

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