Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 19:51:01 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <199706232351.TAA27480@delorie.com>
From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
To: broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de
CC: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.3.91.970623185442.31017F-100000@acp3bf> (message from
	Hans-Bernhard Broeker on Mon, 23 Jun 1997 19:08:45 +0200 (MET DST))
Subject: Re: Library rebuilds
Precedence: bulk


> > I think you can safely say that now, since so many packages need it to 
> > build them.  However, since DJ is the one who builds libc, it's his 
> > decision whether to depend on Bash and other utilities.
> 
> Or more precisely, what exactly he meant by saying 'only djgpp'. DJ?

I think I covered this, but to reiterate: the user must not be
required to obtain other software, either for a price or free (besides
the OS, of course) besides the official DJGPP distribution, in order
to build any part of DJGPP.

> Hey, maybe that's what I should do... install even 'libc.a' using
> 'update', and then let make call itself until it libc.a stops to change,
> and only then allow 'make install'. But I'm slowly loosing my footing
> here, I think :-)

COFF objects have timestamps in them.  Beware when constructing loops
like this, because a binary compare won't ever compare two objects the
same, if they were built at different times.