Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 18:51:17 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Andris Pavenis <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv>
cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Some notes about DJDEV202.ZIP
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On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Andris Pavenis wrote:

>                  There will be problems with gcc-2.8.1 as $DJDIR/lib 
> 			is included in library search path. Therefore a note that
>  			a replacement version from gcc281b.zip should be used
>  			is necessary

I think this is very unfortunate.  We shouldn't require that users 
replace or edit their djgpp.env as function of their other software.  
djdev should work out of the box with all supported versions.

Isn't there any other way to make both 2.7.2 and 2.8.x be happy?  Maybe 
some other environment variable that can be used differently by each 
version?

If not, then I'd suggest to change gcc 2.8.1 (again) so that it works
correctly even if $DJDIR/lib is part of LIBRARY_PATH.

If that is impractical, I would even go as far as announcing that v2.02 
doesn't support gcc versions before 2.8.1 (and maybe leave v2.01 
available from SimTel for some time after 2.02 is released).

Btw, which problems exactly will this setting cause?