Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 17:14:09 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "Patrick R. White" <patwhite AT interaccess DOT com>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: djgpp - General Protection Exception
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On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Patrick R. White wrote:

> I have a 6 mos. old IBM ThinkPad 770 with Pentium 233MMX, 96mb SDRAM and
> Win95 OSR2.0. I downloaded DJGPP version 2.01 and unzipped it with
> ZipMagic 98. In a DOS window, I have once been able to compile a small C
> program and ask for the gcc version a couple of times.
> 
> Now trying to execute gcc for anything results in a GPE.  Does anybody
> else have these problems?

Try setting LFN=y in the environment.  Also, make sure your DJGPP
variable is set corectly.

> I suspect that I might have to remake the sources and I can use Watcom
> to remake gcc.  What makefile or procedures do I have to follow?

Don't even think about that.  GCC will not build with Watcom.