Message-ID: <007401c25e2d$1789eed0$7397adcb@p4>
From: "Andrew Cottrell" <acottrel AT ihug DOT com DOT au>
To: "Richard Dawe" <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>,
   "Charles Sandmann" <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
Cc: <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
References: <10209161715 DOT AA20704 AT clio DOT rice DOT edu> <3D862656 DOT 54CED140 AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
Subject: Re: djgpp 2.04 status page correction
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 19:31:36 +1000
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> Charles Sandmann wrote:
> > There are other things we need to do before a v2.04 release,
> > but I don't remember them all now
>
 > As far as I can tell from looking at mails in my todo folder, the only
major
> issue is the one with rm on Windows 2k/XP. Plus lots of testing!
This is the only one that is currently holding me up building GCC 3.2 on XP.
I can build all of the other packages....

> I'll try to put up a web page this weekend about doing a release of 2.04 -
> vital features, features that may go in, features that will go in
> 2.05/whatever is next, known bugs, what needs doing, etc.

Looking forward to seeing the web page.

Apart from the issues that are included in the djgpp status text file
available at clio on the 2.04 page
(http://clio.rice.edu/djgpp/win2k/djgpp_204_status.txt) these are other
issues that I have come accross and may need to be documented some where so
that other people don't fall into the hole(s) like I did:-
    1) GDB & Bin utilities does not support i786 (by default you can't build
on P4 PC, changes to build are very easy)
    2) Some of additional packges use a build process that has not been
updated in a long time and therefore has bit rot. For these check out the
packages where I have included source code at clio. So far they are:-
        a) Find
        b) Grep
        c) Which
    3) Need to use Bash 2.05b on 2K/XP using source available from Mark's
DJGPP page (http://snowballville.tripod.com/djgpp/)
    4) Use Rhide 1.5.0 beta as it works allot better than the 1.4.9.x
releases on 2K/XP.
    5) Under Win 2K and XP you can get sound to work via VDMSound
(http://www.ece.mcgill.ca/~vromas/vdmsound/)
    6) Currently becuase of the rm.exe issue you can't reliably rebuild GCC
3.2 on XP. It will build once and then the second time the exe's won't be
re-built from memory. I am assuming that once the rm.exe is fixed then GCC
3.2  builds will work.

Hope this helps.

Andrew