Date: Thu, 17 Mar 94 12:07:59 JST
From: Stephen Turnbull <turnbull AT shako DOT sk DOT tsukuba DOT ac DOT jp>
To: gambcl AT essex DOT ac DOT uk
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Can't open gcc - help

This looks like it might be the dreaded not enough space under 640KB
bug.
    If you use the make 3.69 with DJGPP, then when you are actually
compiling there are *3* copies of GO32 in memory, (one for make, one
for gcc, and one for the compiler) taking up 150KB + 150KB, and the
new copy requires 180KB of elbow room for a grand total of 480KB.  I'm
not sure why it waits for the link step to have a problem, except that
typically link command lines are much longer than compile lines, and
this might increase the environment space enough to put you over the
edge.
    Try squeezing out an extra 2K of DOS program space before running
the make....
    --Steve