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From: "George Foot" <george DOT foot AT merton DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk>
To: duncanburch AT my-dejanews DOT com
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 01:42:31 +0000
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Subject: Re: grc isnt working
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On 22 Sep 98 at 20:48, duncanburch AT my-dejanews DOT com wrote:

> In article <199809220110 DOT CAA05806 AT rochefort DOT ns DOT easynet DOT net>,
>   mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk wrote:
> > I'd be interested to know just what you did to make it work
> > with gcc v2.8.1.  Was it awkward?  The reason I ask is that
> > gcc v2.8.1 needs a special djgpp.env doesn't it?  RSXNTDJ's
> > djgpp.env is based on older gcc versions.  Any changes to
> > `lib/specs' for gcc v2.8.1 would have the same problem because
> > RSXNTDJ needs its own changes to the specs.
> 
> I just modified the existing djgpp.env file and added all of the extra
> directorys etc. manually. I took a bit of messing around, and gave me some
> very strange errors whilst I was trying to get it working, but it now works
> perfectly. If you want i'll email you the config file, which could save time
> arsing around.

No, thanks, not to me anyway.  I just wanted to know roughly 
what was involved.  I use gcc 2.7.2.1 and binutils 2.7, so I 
had no incompatibility problems with RSXNTDJ at all.

Although, I think maybe if the RSXNTDJ author isn't around at
the moment it would be good to work out a new djgpp.env for
RSXNTDJ with gcc 2.8.1, and also to compile a new ld.exe
(using the patch in the RSXNTDJ distribution) based on binutils
2.8.1 (or whatever the latest version is).  Plus Doug Gale has 
his patch to the specs, and I have a patch to dllexp.c.

It would be better if we could contact the author though, so 
that he could coordinate it all.

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george DOT foot AT merton DOT oxford DOT ac DOT uk