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From:	Juan Manuel Guerrero <juan DOT guerrero AT gmx DOT de>
To:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: ANNOUNCE: Update of Binutils 2.17 uploaded
Date:	Thu, 19 Apr 2007 22:27:49 +0200
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When binary distributions (aka NNNNNNb.zip) are produced it should be paid
attention that a possible generated dir file by the build proccess should *not*
be included in the zip archive.  Nowadays GNU Makefiles usualy generate
one dir file during installation proccess if they can not find one.  This
implies that when the package is installed the djgpp dir file may be replaced
by this useless one.  Even worse if an dir file entry appears in the manifest
file for that binary archive.  This will remove the dir file from the /info
directory and the average user will no longer be able to read info docs.
This happened to me today when I deinstalled the old bnu217b.zip to reinstall
the new one.  It took me some time to understand why info stopped to work
as it should and what had happened  with my dir file.

Last but not least, is there any particular reason why /current/v2gnu/bnu217b.zip
has been updated but not /beta/v2gnu/bnu217b.zip?

Regards,
Juan M. Guerrero

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