From: "Alan McFarlane" <amcfarlane AT bigfoot DOT com>
References: <01bd5af6$76c94b00$4b3e64c2 AT default> <3 DOT 0 DOT 1 DOT 16 DOT 19980329170746 DOT 27afc9bc AT shadow DOT net>
Subject: Re: Allegro wip?
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 00:19:13 +0100
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Ralph Proctor wrote in message
<3 DOT 0 DOT 1 DOT 16 DOT 19980329170746 DOT 27afc9bc AT shadow DOT net>...
>At 08:53 PM 3/29/98 +0100, you wrote:
>>laine writes:
>>>What's this "patch"-file, where could I get it or should I have it
already?
>>>Or what's wrong?
>>
>>Argh. You are the sixth person who has asked this question since I put
>>the diff up about a week ago, and yet on my webpage, about two
>>centimeters below where you had to click to download the file, it says:
>>
>>    Installation instructions can be found in the zip. Note: the patch
>>    program is a standard GNU tool, and is part of the djgpp
>>    distribution (filename pat*b.zip).
>>
>>Try reading the instructions first, and then ask for help only if the
>>info you need isn't already there...
>
>Shawn:
>
>I did everyhing precisely as you said--I think I picked this WIP up within
>hours of when you put it on--and it did not work. Yes, I had the patch.exe
>installled in djgpp\bin, fine. But there was a bad thing in the make file,
>the one you included with the diff. Really. It must be an old make file.
>Not right. If I am wrong, god help me, I am sorry, but is that make file
>right?
>
>Ralph
>___________________
>Ralph Proctor
>Coral Gables, Florida
>ralphgpr AT shadow DOT net

Yup - mine "maked?" okay...
(Well apart from the slight hiccup, but Shawn did say that I should have a
'clean' Allegro installation - I didn't, so I got a couple of warnings but
no errors. New code works okay for me...
Check your environment, or have you "tweaked" Allegro's base installation?
--
Alan McFarlane
amcfarlane AT bigfoot DOT com