Date:	Tue, 16 Nov 1999 18:05:25 +0200 (WET)
From:	Andris Pavenis <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv>
To:	Martin Stromberg <Martin DOT Stromberg AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se>
cc:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: GCC porting questions
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On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Martin Stromberg wrote:

> Andris said:
> > 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).
> > 
> > Therefore I choosed to simulate bootstrapping by calling different parts
> > from bat file (each part is small enough not to crash under Win9X DPMI
> > server and that helped also to workaround absence of symbolic links).
> 
> This is NOT good. I'm using bash so any .BAT file won't stop the
> descriptors problem in WINDOZE. And you say if the make process is
> interrupted it won't build correctly...
> 

You still can avoid using this bat file by starting all parts by hand:
	sh djbuild1.sh config
	sh djbuild1.sh gcc1
	etc.

See bat file for reference.

But You should remember to restart DOS session for each part toavoid
problems with Wincrash9X DPMI server.

Andris


 

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