Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 12:42:42 +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: egcs-1.1a uploaded
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On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, Andris Pavenis wrote:

> I think it would be possible. Only question here: how big is possibility
> to get problems in case of bad installation. DJDEV contains specs in
> $DJDIR/lib which can interfere with compiler-specific one if $DJDIR/lib
> is searched before compiler-specific directory 

Since you never change $DJDIR/specs, no harm will be done if the user 
doesn't remove it: in such a case, the old specs file will be used, and 
there's no -remap switch there.  -remap only matters if the new specs 
file *is* used.

> We still can download all original releases (and even all snapshots)
> of egcs from ftp.cygnus.com and mirrors. I included bash script that
> updates egcs-1.1 sources for DJGPP (it is only necessary to delete
> part that cleans source directory from unneeded sources).

It is better to provide all the sources from a single place.