From:	Jason Green <news AT jgreen4 DOT fsnet DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject:	Re: Question on a (possibly) Missing File...
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David Cleaver <davidis AT ou DOT edu> wrote:

> > Reading some of the threads recently made me check to see what my version of gcc
> > was, well, you guessed it, it was 2.8.1.   I've just finished downloading what I
> > believe to be all the files needed to update to gcc 2.95.2.  However, when I
> > compile a program that is supposed to be compile-able with this latest release
> > it tells me that I am missing a file.  It says that I am missing comm.a?  Can
> > someone please tell me what comm.a is and what .zip it is included in so I can
> > download it?  Thank you for your time.

> Has no one ever heard of a library called comm.a?  I am asking in the wrong
> place (or a wrong question)?  Some feedback would be appreciated.

You don't really give enough information.  Please at least give the
exact command line you use to compile and the exact errors you get.

How did you upgrade?  Uninstall/install each package, or wipe out the
whole directory tree and reinstall everything from scratch?

AFAIK comm.a is not part of either version of GCC, or even DJGPP.  It
sounds like you had some other package that included comm.a and this
got lost as part of the re-install.  If we knew what program you are
trying to compile then someone could stab a guess at where the library
came from originally.  

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