From: "Tom Demmer" <DEMMER AT brain1 DOT lstm DOT ruhr-uni-bochum DOT de>
Organization:  Lehrstuhl Stroemungsmechanik, RUB
To: Nicholas FitzRoy-Dale <nicholas AT ans DOT com DOT au>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date:          Mon, 30 Sep 1996 09:16:03 GMT-1
Subject:       Re: Help with networked DJGPP?
Reply-to: Demmer AT LStM DOT Ruhr-Uni-Bochum DOT De
Message-ID: <E6EC9249B4@brain1.lstm.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>

> Hi everyone!  Sorry to annoy you with a rather common problem, but I have
> been having trouble getting DJGPP v2 to run on a Novell netowork.
> 
> After browsing the mail archive, I learned that this was due to stat()
> checking for "lib\." instead of "lib" (or something similar), and I could
> solve the problem in two ways:
> 
> 1) Patch gcc
> 2) replace NETX with VLM
> 
> I don't want to do (2) because I know nothing about VLM, and the network is
> a school network which myself and others have just finished fixing :)  I
> found a site supposedly containing the patch, but it seems to have disappeared.
> 
> Could someone please point me in the direction of a patch, or at least tell
> me which lines to modify in gcc?
> 

For a quick workaround: 
Add -L/path/to/libs on the command line. This overrules gcc's 
automagic logic to determine if the directory exists. 

For 2):
It is highly recommended  to switch to VLMs, it is quite easy, you 
get Packet Burst capabilities blasting my network performance to 
 > 700 kB/s on a NE2000 clone talking to a 486/33 server. 
If you need assistance on that, drop me a line.

I'll send you the changed stat.c that should go into your libc.
Then you'll have to rebuild gcc.exe.

Ciao
Tom

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