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Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Release 1 of the DJGPP port of GNU binutils 2.17 
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Hi,

On Mar 28, 4:18 pm, Juan Manuel Guerrero <juan DOT guerr DOT  DOT  DOT  AT gmx DOT de> wrote:
> Rugxulo schrieb:
>
> > On Mar 28, 10:44 am, Juan Manuel Guerrero <juan DOT guerr DOT  DOT  DOT  AT gmx DOT de>
> > wrote:
> > > This is release 1 of the binaries and libraries of the port of GNU binutils
> > > to MSDOS/DJGPP.
>
> > I guess you didn't see (or weren't interested) that I recompiled it
> > myself. Oh well, it doesn't take *that* long to recompile it, I
> > guess.    ;-)
>
> Your contributions are always welcome, but you did not
> upload your zip file to delorie.com as explained in:
> <http://www.delorie.com/howto/djgpp/djgpp-upload.html>
> to make it available to all users at the standard place.

No, I only rebuilt myself as a stop-gap until someone either confirmed
my report, figured out exactly why it was doing so, or at least tested
it a bit.

> Because binutils is an essential package and you have reported
> GPFs I have decide to replace inmediatly.

Good, thanks!   :-)

> Again, porting and maintainig efforts from every one are welcome.
>

I didn't do anything unusual, just did what was suggested:   "sh
djconfig.sh" and then "make" then "strip -s" on all .EXEs (so as not
to have a 13 MB .ZIP, ick). And then I only included the .EXEs because
everything else is (probably) the same:

http://rugxulo.googlepages.com/bnu217b-new-exe.7z     (808k)

I know it doesn't really matter now, but I present it anyways just for
completeness' sake. I just thought somebody may want a newer build
without having to rebuild themselves (since it was kinda slow ... or
I'm impatient maybe, heh).

> > Not to nitpick, but nobody ever took my suggestion to use
> > AdvanceComp's ADVZIP tool.
>
> > 4,740,125 -> 4,601,172 bytes (saves 136k)
>
> > 1,993,706 -> 1,931,735 bytes (saves 60k)
>
> No objections from my side but there are two conditions:
>   - djtar.exe
>   - unzip32.exe
> Both programs are and will be the standard unzipping programs.
> At least as DJ does not decide something different.  If both are
> able to unzip archives produced by ADVZIP, I will give it a try.

I use AdvanceZip on a regular basis and have had no issues with either
DJTAR or Info-Zip's unzip. Like I said, it's basically just the same
as using 7-Zip, but you don't have to manually unpack and repack, it
does it in memory for you. Anything to save a few kilobytes!   ;-)

(FYI, I've noticed that "-z4" by itself isn't as size optimal as
trying "-z1" through "-z4" in succession. I use a DOSKEY cmdline
alias: "advzipit=if exist $1 for %a in (1 2 3 4) do advzip -z%a $1".)

> Can you point me to the home page.

http://advancemame.sourceforge.net/comp-readme.html

> Is it open source/free?  Are there copyright issues?

It's based upon zlib and 7-Zip's deflate, and it's GPL (according to
Sourceforge). Yes, it's open source because I rebuilt it myself in
hopes of speedups for my P166.   ;-)
A simple "configure" didn't work because it didn't find GCC, so I had
to do "configure CC=gcc" (I think) and then change "g++" to "gpp" in
the makefile. Oh, and I think I had to install the DJGPP port of ZLIB
too (since I hadn't already). In brief timing tests, it was indeed
faster on my P166 than the default "Pentium build" (but I used a newer
GCC, "-march=pentium -O3", so that probably helped). You may even be
able to upgrade the 7-Zip source parts in hopes of faster compression
and bugfixes (since AdvanceComp stalled development since 2005), but I
didn't try yet.