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From: "Juan Manuel Guerrero" <ST001906 AT HRZ1 DOT HRZ DOT TU-Darmstadt DOT De>
Organization: Darmstadt University of Technology
To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 20:01:51 +0200
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Subject: Re: djgpp: djgpp/readme.1st
CC: dj AT delorie DOT com, eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il
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Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 09:52:22 +0200
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Subject: Re: djgpp: djgpp/readme.1st

On Thu, 25 Jan 2001 09:52:22 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 19:57:53 -0500
>> From: "cvs-dj AT delorie DOT com" <cvs AT delorie DOT com>
>>   
>>   To build C programs, you'll need djdev203.zip, gcc*b.zip, and
>> ! bnu*b.zip.  For C++, also get gpp*b.zip.
>>   
>>   To read the online manuals, get txi*b.zip and run "info".  If you don't
>> --- 103,107 ----
>>   
>>   To build C programs, you'll need djdev203.zip, gcc*b.zip, and
>> ! bnu*b.zip.  For C++, also get gpp*b.zip and lgp*b.zip.
>
> DJ, why did you add lgpNNNb.zip to this?  AFAIK it is not required for
> C++ programming, unless someone really needs the obsolete GNU C++
> classes.
>
> In the past, gxx.exe would complain about a missing libgpp.a, but that
> is no longer the case.

I have submitted a patch with some typo fixes and this particular suggestion.
While I was writing a german translation of README.1ST I had found that zip picker
**always** tells the user to download lgp*b.zip if c++ compiling is wanted and this
is the way I have done it for (maybe) the last 10 years every time I installed
a new version of the c++ compiler.
The goal of the patch was to keep in sync the README.1st information with
the zip picker instructions.
I am not a c++ programmer, so I have not followed the gpp development of the last years.
If the information I have proposed for the README.1ST file is obsolete, please remove it
and excuse the inconveniences cause.
But IMHO, both zip picker information **and** README.1SR information should be updated
telling the user exactly *when* lgp*b.zip must be downloaded and for *what* it must be
downloaded.

Regards,
Guerrero, Juan Manuel

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