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From: thimm AT onned DOT gr (Herbert Thimm)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: remaking of DJGPP
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 1996 16:50:33 GMT
Organization: Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas, FORTHnet
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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Hello,
I once tried to remake DJGPP v1, and had to find out that there were
many obstacles in doing it. I think that D.J. Delorie did the
compilation either by hand or maybe under Linux (there were some
makefiles using Unix cd syntax, e.g. cd ../texi)
Now I have the complete V2 beta 3, and sometime I will get beta 4.
In beta3 there is still gcc 2.6.3 and in beta 4 there is gcc 2.7.1 (so I
have heard).
My questions are the following:
1) What do I need to recompile DJGPP? Will it be (painlessly) possible
under DOS (e.g. via makefile) or do I need Linux?
2) If under DOS, what else besides DJGPP V2 do I need?
3) Is it possible for a novice to apply patches from 2.7.1 to 2.7.2 (I
downloaded the 7MB tar.gz file), or the repo-patch and the boundary
check patch?

There have been some postings that some people recompiled DJGPP for
2.7.2. I think that more people would like to try this. Maybe someone
who has done it would like to write a short HowTo or a faq and give it
to Eli Zaretskii (the faq maintainer) or post it in this newsgroup.

Regards,
Herbert Thimm