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Date:	Sun, 14 Nov 1999 09:59:39 +0200
From:	Laurynas Biveinis <lauras AT softhome DOT net>
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To:	Andris Pavenis <pavenis AT ieva01 DOT lanet DOT lv>
CC:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>,
	DJGPP Workers <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
Subject:	Re: GCC porting questions
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Reply-To:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com

Andris Pavenis wrote:
> Currently building gcc for DJGPP requires LFN support and is tested under
> Win9X only. Bootstraping gcc is much too big task for Win9X DPMI server
> even if we'll have real symlink support (it will run out of descriptors
> much more early).

Is it the same problem which occurs when build djdev - when you run make,
after some progress you get 'DOS error : no load memory' or similar?

If so and if gcc bootstrap is restartable, would calling 'make bootstrap'
three or four or whatever times in a row work?

> About possible fixes:
>         providing LFN support for DOS, so we could use CWSDPMI.

I had somewhere LFN support TSR, will look.

Laurynas Biveinis

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