X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-workers-bounces using -f X-Authenticated: #27081556 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19jqkgCBp5jCsz6iMRxtvAaU/1rIoq4CJXvWKwrEY q71+Fd3CQXX7Td From: Juan Manuel Guerrero To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Update of Binutils 2.17 uploaded Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 22:27:49 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200704192227.49540.juan.guerrero@gmx.de> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com When binary distributions (aka NNNNNNb.zip) are produced it should be paid attention that a possible generated dir file by the build proccess should *not* be included in the zip archive. Nowadays GNU Makefiles usualy generate one dir file during installation proccess if they can not find one. This implies that when the package is installed the djgpp dir file may be replaced by this useless one. Even worse if an dir file entry appears in the manifest file for that binary archive. This will remove the dir file from the /info directory and the average user will no longer be able to read info docs. This happened to me today when I deinstalled the old bnu217b.zip to reinstall the new one. It took me some time to understand why info stopped to work as it should and what had happened with my dir file. Last but not least, is there any particular reason why /current/v2gnu/bnu217b.zip has been updated but not /beta/v2gnu/bnu217b.zip? Regards, Juan M. Guerrero