From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: make depend
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 17:35:30 +0200
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Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:
> For quite some time, we
> managed to get along by having 'specs' be part of the DJGPP, not the
> gcc package, but given the changes to 'specs' introduced by newer
> gcc's, that became a non-option.

Actually, the reason why distributing specs with DJGPP worked is that,
originally, a new release of DJGPP (i.e., djdevNNN.zip) was *always*
accompanied by a simultaneous release of ports of GCC and Binutils (and
sometimes Make and other core utilities).  That was possible as long as a
single person--DJ Delorie--released all of these packages himself; once this
ceased to be so, it is no longer a practical alternative.