X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f X-Recipient: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: djgpp to Linux ARM cross binutils To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com References: <5607D4C3 DOT 4040800 AT gmx DOT de> <4b10ba83-055b-4ff9-bdd1-81b37c9aee36 AT googlegroups DOT com> <56083B83 DOT 6040707 AT iki DOT fi> <56086184 DOT 9070505 AT gmx DOT de> From: "Andris Pavenis (andris DOT pavenis AT iki DOT fi) [via djgpp AT delorie DOT com]" Message-ID: <560979A2.4050207@iki.fi> Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2015 20:32:18 +0300 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <56086184.9070505@gmx.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On 09/28/2015 12:37 AM, Juan Manuel Guerrero (juan DOT guerrero AT gmx DOT de) [via djgpp AT delorie DOT com] wrote: > > It is certainly impossible to use neither FreeDOS nor MSDOS 6.22 for this purpose. > No matter if LFN support is available or not. These OS can no longer be used > to compile DJGPP port of GNU software, if the software exceeds certain complexity. > Either FreeDOS has issues or Bash has issues. I do not posses neither Vista > nor Windows 7 so I cannot check there. But it should be clear that a NTVDM > version is required that has full 16-bit support. I do not know about MS DOS 6.22 (I have not seen it for very long time) About FreeDOS: FreeDOS 1.1 kernel has bug which breaks nul (and as result /dev/null for DJGPP), This bag is fixed later. I have not however tried later kernel versions, but it could be interesting to know whether situation improves with it (or one gets stuck due to another show-stopper bug). Andris