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Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 13:22:51 -0600
From: JT Williams <jeffw AT darwin DOT sfbr DOT org>
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Subject: Re: About release of gcc-2.95.3 for DJGPP
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-: Unfortunatelly as we know from earlier experience, many users don't read 
-: readme files, so perhaps somebody will simply try to use binaries of
-: gcc-2.95.3 together with old binutils and run into trouble. It's mentioned
-: in gnu/gcc-2.953/problems.txt but the question is, how many users will see
-: it. But I don't see any other reasonable way how to force users to upgrade
-: binutils (we cannot provide compatibility with old binutils forever ...) 

Wasn't someone working on a DJGPP system checking utility (not zippo),
that would try to ferret out things like this?  The initial approach might
be a simple script that checks the manifest/ directory for incompatible
package versions; something makefile- or autoconf-ish might be better in
the long run.  Assuming, of course, that the user hasn't nuked manifests/
or otherwise molested the expected djgpp tree (yeah, right).