X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 16:19:14 +0200 From: Mateusz Viste User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: DJGGP/GCC - detect unset env variables before using them Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 18 Message-ID: <556480e2$0$3071$426a34cc@news.free.fr> Organization: Guest of ProXad - France NNTP-Posting-Date: 26 May 2015 16:19:14 CEST NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.225.72.113 X-Trace: 1432649954 news-4.free.fr 3071 82.225.72.113:58136 X-Complaints-To: abuse AT proxad DOT net Bytes: 1652 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Hello list, I noticed very positive movements recently on this list, making me think that a new version of DJGPP could appear in some near future, which would be great :) If I may suggest one pretty small problem (but very frustrating) that could be fixed in the newest DJGPP: The current GCC.EXE compiler crashes horribly when the environment variable "DJGPP" is not set. This variable is supposed to point to the djgpp.env file, and I understand it's necessary. However, it would be *really* nice if gcc could simply output an error message saying that this variable needs to be set, and what it needs to point to, instead of crashing with a page fault. cheers, Mateusz