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Subject: Re: About new DJGPP v2.04 beta
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On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 5:50 PM, Andris Pavenis <andris DOT pavenis AT iki DOT fi> wrote:
> I guess we should make a new DJGPP v2.04 beta soon
> and most likely do a release also sometimes
> in not too far future
>
> Some examples where it could be needed:
> - use of upcoming gcc-4.8.0 (changes for
>   1 header file needed, already in CVS)
> - GMP-5.1.X does not compile without trunc()
>   which was recently added to CVS. Really only
>   'make check' fails, but one cannot relay
>   that library will work OK without that
>
> There will most likely be no ports of these
> for DJGPP v2.03.
>
> for gcc-4.8.0: something seems to be broken
> with bash-2.0.4 which prevents building GCC
> for DJGPP v2.03. Unfortunately bash-2.0.5b from
> beta also cannot be used in this case.
>
> Andris
>
>

It would have been very nice if the src were made somehow configurable
to leave out undesired features, e.g. symlinks getting in the way upon
every fopen() & co, FILE_DESC_DIRECTORY, and the likes.

--
O.S.