Message-ID: From: Michel de Ruiter To: "'djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com'" Cc: "Eli Zaretskii (E-mail)" Subject: RE: DJLSR203 Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 10:22:12 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com > > - Many of the zip files contain CVS directories, although I > > think they are of no use. > Which ones? I don't see even a single CVS directory in my copies of > the zips. Hmmm, I come to think that I did something wrong... [snip] > Is it possible that you downloaded some old alpha version from the > alphas subdirectory on SimTel.NET? What size and time stamp are your > dj*203.zip files? Aaarggghhh. I'm sure that has been the case and I have no idea how I could have been *that* stupid... I'm sorry! > > - src/gcc*.opt: why do we still use the -fno-strength-reduce and -m* > > options? > Because the library was produced by GCC 2.8.1. We didn't yet switch > to GCC 2.9x for building djdev. Ok. I rebuilt it with GCC 2.9x and without those switches myself now. > > - Why are the following still in djgpp.env, can't they do any harm? > I don't see anything wrong with these. They are there mainly for > back-compatibility, but they shouldn't do anything bad with latest > versions of GCC and Kpathsea/Web2c. If you think they can do any > harm, please explain why. I don't think they can, but I remember the docs telling you should not have any of them any more in the new versions of TeX and GCC. I see that they just should not be *necessary* any more. Whatever. :) > > - Some makefiles contain a tab on a line of its own. > I don't like changing files just to alter whitespace. These TABs > don't do any harm. Emacs shows them in special color because they can > be dangerous in some cases, but not in our makefiles. In particular, > it is *never* dangerous if there's no preceding rule line. Allright. I'm being too suspicious again. Thanks for your time, patience and answers. Groente, Michel.