From: Martin Stromberg <Martin DOT Stromberg AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se>
Message-Id: <199911160900.KAA16388@propus.lu.erisoft.se>
Subject: Re: GCC porting questions
To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 10:00:07 +0100 (MET)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.A41.4.05.9911140918540.260990-100000@ieva01.lanet.lv> from "Andris Pavenis" at Nov 14, 99 09:34:53 am
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Andris said:
> Currently building gcc for DJGPP requires LFN support and is tested under
> Win9X only. Bootstraping gcc is much too big task for Win9X DPMI server
> even if we'll have real symlink support (it will run out of descriptors
> much more early).
> 
> Therefore I choosed to simulate bootstrapping by calling different parts
> from bat file (each part is small enough not to crash under Win9X DPMI
> server and that helped also to workaround absence of symbolic links).

This is NOT good. I'm using bash so any .BAT file won't stop the
descriptors problem in WINDOZE. And you say if the make process is
interrupted it won't build correctly...


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							MartinS