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On 05/03/2018 06:20 AM, Andris Pavenis (andris DOT pavenis AT iki DOT fi) [via djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> gcc-8.1.0 packages (both DJGPP native compiler and cross-compiler RPMs) are available for testing at
>
>
> http://ap1.pp.fi/djgpp/gcc/8.1.0/
>
> http://ap1.pp.fi/djgpp/gcc/gcc-version-index.html
>
>
> I have not have done any additional testing except of building the compiler (bootstrapping native 
> compiler ensures that it works for building itself).
>
> I'll upload the same packages to ftp.delorie.com sometime later unless serious enough problems 
> found.

Known problems:

- building DJGPP CVS version: additional warnings treated as errors (can be avoided by providing 
-Wno-stringop-truncation -Wno-stringop-overflow)
- requires binutils-2.30+ (requirements in readme.DJGPP are not updated and are incorrect, 
binutils-2.29.1 do not work. No cross-binutils RPM on ftp.delorie.com, so cross-compiler RPMs are 
currently unusable
- no more -gcoff: is it necessary for anything except building Emacs for DJGPP. As far as I 
remember building Emacs work with really old gcc versions only

It would perhaps be reasonable to release new DJGPP version (2.06?).
- Ada already requires changes that are not in 2.05 (some features)
- Larga amount of changes are required to build

Possible additional change, which I would like to see in: support of NTFS when SFN creating is 
disabled by Windows registry setting. Currently attempting open file which has only LFN but not SFN 
fails with EACCES. I myself do not have all required environments for testing such changes

Andris