From:	sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
Message-Id:	<10212111423.AA22481@clio.rice.edu>
Subject:	Re: DJGPP 2.04 status page updates: more to-dos, priorities
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Date:	Wed, 11 Dec 2002 08:23:04 -0600 (CST)
In-Reply-To:	<00ca01c2a0fd$a1d8b860$0100a8c0@p4> from "Andrew Cottrell" at Dec 11, 2002 09:10:41 PM
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> > > > I'd like to know exactly what breaks this ... If it's some new
> > > > binutils feature we can live without ...
> > >
> The new bin utils is the culprit and the latest UPX (Nov 2002) checks and
> finds that it does not know how to handle the new exes and gives the
> following error:
> 
> upx: gcc.exe: CantPackException: unsupported coff header

Next question.  Why is the binutils changing the coff headers?  Maybe
we should go back to an earlier binutils unless something in it is
absolutely required.

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