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Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 01:22:52 +0100
From: Richard Dawe <richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com>
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To: Laurynas Biveinis <lauras AT softhome DOT net>
CC: DJGPP workers <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: Useful version of zippo, DJGPP package manager, now out
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Hello.

Laurynas Biveinis wrote:
> also rewrote expression
> *p = '\0', ret = mkdir(buf, mode), *p = '/';
> to use ";" instead of ",", because GCC could reorder that
> expression as it likes and that would result in a big bug.

Is this really true? I thought that use of the comma operator only let the
operations occur in the written order.

> Last note - in docs you mentioned that configure script
> not always finds GCC. You seem to be using autoconf 2.12,
> I suggest to update to 2.13 and the problem should vanish.
> Also I added AC_PROG_CC call to configure.in.

FYI using AC_PROG_CC seems to also fix the problem. You then do not have
to use 'export CC=$DJDIR/bin/gcc.exe' for the configure script to find all
the libraries, etc. I haven't tried autoconf 2.13 yet.

I've just updated the zippo home page with fixed binaries and a source
patch for the bugs discovered by Laurynas Biveinis:

http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/zippo/

Bye.