Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 00:33:40 -0500
From: 2boxers <2boxers AT comcast DOT net>
Subject: Re: linux-x-djgpp revised howto
To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
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corrections have been made.
I have it up as a text file for the moment.
http://users.erols.com/praccompsol/djgpp/linux-x-djgpp_REV-2.txt

Please let me know what you think.

> Er, the howtos are plain ASCII, not HTML...
> And for some reason you are defaulting to a text size that is way
> smaller than my default.  Don't you trust me to pick my own font size?

I didn't realize there was a font size specification.
It is true ascii now.

> DJGPP's mini-faq has nothing to do with the versions of software
> installed on your Linux machine.

removed

> You shouldn't refer to one particular djgpp mirror.  Go through
> www.simtel.net and hunt down the file; point to the URL for the last
> page before you pick a mirror site.  Or (probably best) just say
> "v2/djcrx203.zip from your local djgpp ftp site".

fixed in the offline HTML version pending the discovery of your font size ;)

> The environment variable setting instructions are specific to bash.
> They won't work in sh or csh (just a note would be fine).

sh/bash/ksh specific commands are now listed
and so are csh specific commands

> The canonical djgpp target name is i586-pc-msdosdjgpp, not i686.  It's
> probably not a problem any more, but at one point it was.  We use i586
> in our docs, probably should continue that to be consistent.

fixed

> The symbolic links should probably be relative, not absolute, like
> ln -s libstdc++.a $prefix/$target/lib/libstdcxx.a

fixed

> The /usr/bin/djgcc files should probably go by default in
> /usr/local/bin

fixed

> You don't need to restub your binary to get it to run under DOS.  Just
> put cwsdpmi.exe somewhere in your PATH.  The rest is automatic.

Correct, it simply mentions that you can do this if you choose to.