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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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To: Nate Eldredge <eldredge AT ap DOT net>, crough45 AT amc DOT de
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 09:55:24 +0000
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Subject: Re: DJ port of GCC 2.8.0?
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Nate Eldredge <eldredge AT ap DOT net> wrote:

> At 07:47  1/16/1998 +0100, Chris Croughton wrote:
> >Gili wrote:
> >> 
> >>         Where can I find the DOS binaries?
> >
> >You can't, until someone has built it.  I don't have time
> >for at least a week, even if it builds first time (I don't
> >know how much of the DJGPP stuff has been transferred into
> >the GNU version, or how the configure and make will work
> >under DOS; the INSTALL file isn't very clear except that 
> >you need DJGPP to build it with).  Probably everyone else
> >is in the same state - it takes time to build and even more
> >to test.
> >
> >If it's urgent you could always build it yourself <g>...
> Somebody said that 2.8.1 should be out within weeks, so it *might* be more
> efficient to wait for that before trying to build it. (Did they find bugs
> already? What's up?)

The bugs list is full of reports, is a chaos ;-). Most of the problems are to 
compile the new sources under different targets. I think that somebody must try 
with 2.8.0 and send patchs if he finds problems related to DOS or we won't have 
a clean 2.8.1.

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