Mail Archives: djgpp-workers/2000/03/05/04:08:12
On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, Andris Pavenis wrote:
> About CRC failures in bnu2951s.zip in Simtelnet:
> I also experienced similar problems with some attempts to upload
> gcc related archives to ftp.delorie.com (and as I remember I was
> not alone):
FWIW it never happened to me. Very strange, these failures.
> So perhaps we should always send MD5SUMs to DJ for tests and he
> should try to find a weak place where problems appears.
Probably a good idea, assuming that DJ has time to verify ;-)
> 1) It was DOS style text file. It would be better to have UNIX style text
> file (I'm patching binutils and building them for DJGPP using
> cross-compiling under Linux)
Although I agree that it is better to have patches (and all files in
general) in Unix format, you can use the --binary switch to Patch to
remove the CR characters. IIRC, Patch 2.5.3 supports that switch.
> 3) Is it really needed to patch configure (as it is generated file). If
> one applies patches to different binutils snapshot he/she is expected
> to know how to use autoconf. At least patch for configure failed
> as perhaps You used file generated by DJGPP port of autoconf
I usually run a Sed script on configure, not Patch. A Sed script is
much more robust that a patch file, because it depends less on
context, and because you control how much context do you want it to
pick.
In any case, I think it is undesirable to ask people who want to
build the distribution to install Autoconf. We already ask too much
for building packages; adding Autoconf, Automake, M4, and Perl to that
would be unjustified (IMHO).
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