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Date: | 11 Feb 2007 11:39:15 -0800 |
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On Feb 11, 3:35 am, AndrewC <andspamt DOT DOT DOT AT exemail DOT doty DOT com DOT au> wrote: > >I have found that the current release from > > ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/txt20b.zip > >is BUGGED > > >a simple command like > > sort --help > >provoke a sigsegv bug on a Windows XP SP2 DOS box, AMD Sempron 3000 > >(but not on another computer, and I have faith on my RAM) > > >whereas > >ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/beta/v2gnu/txt20b.zip > >works. > > This is expected and has been known for a long time. If the binary > files built are built with the original 2.03 DJGPP LIBC release then > expect to have some wierd things go wrong. And by weird you can have > stuff like can't find/load a file up to and incuding instant XP > re-boots. > > If you are using XP then I would advise using the beta release as it > has all of the known fixes that were found when the files were built. > If you use Rhide on XP then I would advise to search the DJGPP > newgroup archives at www.delorie.com otherwise you may have no hair > left after a week if it plays up on you. > > Good luck. > > Andrew "Original" 2.03 release?? Do you mean before 2.03p2? And what version of XP does it not work on? (In other words, SORT.EXE: 93,184 bytes, dated 3 Feb. 2000, runs fine for me on XP Home SP2, at least "sort -- help" anyways).
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