From: Andris Pavenis <pavenis AT latnet DOT lv>
To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com, "Andrew Cottrell" <acottrel AT ihug DOT com DOT au>
Subject: Re: DJGPP 2.04 status page updates: more to-dos, priorities
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 12:33:13 +0200
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On Wednesday 11 December 2002 12:10, Andrew Cottrell wrote:
> > > > I'd like to know exactly what breaks this ... If it's some new
> > > > binutils feature we can live without ...
>
> The new bin utils is the culprit and the latest UPX (Nov 2002) checks and
> finds that it does not know how to handle the new exes and gives the
> following error:
>
> upx: gcc.exe: CantPackException: unsupported coff header
>
> UPX 1.2.4 changes:-
> Changes in 1.24 (07 Nov 2002)
>   * INFO: http://upx.sourceforge.net is the permanent UPX home page
>   * djgpp2/coff: stricter check of the COFF header to work around a
>     problem with certain binutils versions

Have already noticed that. 

Perhaps simply the problem is not fixed, but seems that now UPX detects 
conditions when problems can appear and gives up.

Andris