Date: Tue, 1 Feb 1994 08:29:16 +0100
From: Stefan Eckart <S_Eckart AT lis DOT e-technik DOT tu-muenchen DOT de>
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: Problems with DJGPP 1.11 (GAS2.11)

<elston DOT tsw AT atic-mhs DOT elan DOT af DOT mil> wrote:
> 
> I recently installed DJGPP 1.11 on my PC.  I immediately started the
> tests in the TESTS subdirectory and the compiler failed on the first
> test with the following linker error:
> 
> c:/mark/djgpp/lib/crt0.o: malformed input file (not rel or archive)
> 
> ...
> 
> I got the zip files from wuarchive.wustl.edu in the directory
> systems/ibmpc/msdos/djgpp.  The files we are talking about are:
> 
>    djeoe111.zip, djdev111.zip, gcc254bn.zip, gas211bn.zip, bnu22bn.zip,
>    djdoc111.zip, txi210bn.zip, gpp245.zip, objc245.zip, bsn121bn.zip,
>    flx238bn.zip, gzp124bn.zip, zip50bn.zip
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 

You should check whether you really have the current version of all archives.
In particular there are (at least) two versions of bnu22bn.zip, an old one
of size 442839 (for DJGPP v1.10), and a newer one of size 565066 (for DJGPP
v1.11). This 'trap' cost a friend of mine and me a couple of days of 'remote
debugging' to locate. He got the same error message as you. Maybe the archives
should better be named unambigously...

Stefan.