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From: wtanksle AT sdcc15 DOT ucsd DOT edu (William Tanksley)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Sudden trouble with all go32 programs (esp. Make)
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 1995 16:32:45 -0500
Organization: University of California, San Diego
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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Hi, guys.

I'm rather at a loss as to what's wrong here, so I'm going to have to just
describe my symptoms and hope one of you will recognise it.  The problem is,
I can't find any way to get make to work anymore.

Here's a little background.  Saturday night I finish editing some files in Jed
and shut down the computer.  Sunday morning I decide to let my project
compile during church, so I start make up-- and it core dumps (well, it does
a traceback).  I run symify, and it gives me the same traceback.  Hmm.  I
run jed on one of my config files, and instead of strting up it gives me the
same stuff.  Oh, my.  I activate QDPMI and run optimize, and now Jed and the
other djgpp programs work (by the way, later testing verifies that none of
the programs in the package I have, 1.2 with all the patches, work without
DPMI).  The one exception is make, which simply accesses the disk drive for
a while then locks up.  I need make!

Later testing shows:

 - my disk drive was thrashed (presumably a runaway game; from now on the
   kids STAY on the cdrom!!).  Repaired, but no dice.  I even did a restore
   from backup (althoug it wasn't really needed).
 - make does run; one of the options I typed caused it to display the
   environment like this:
   #
   PATH=D:\DJGPP\BIN;C:\DOS;...
   #
   ...
   and so on.  It THEN proceeded to lock up.  Also, the help screens display
   without trouble.
 - The lockup is 'hard', I need to cycle the power or press the red button;
   ctrl-alt-del just doesn't cut it.
 - I'm running most of my programming stuff off of a Zip drive (Iomega
   100M).  I've never had any troubles with it before, and I've already done
   quite a bit of compiling and so on.
   
Well, do you think it's software?  Or did my hardware just happen to give
out right now?  Can I possibly ignore it by getting the make program for 2.0
alpha?
 
-Billy