Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 09:47:42 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Artur Zaroda <zaroda AT ghost DOT mimuw DOT edu DOT pl>
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Subject: Re: cxxfilt.exe in bnu281b.zip and gxx.exe in djdev202.zip
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On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Artur Zaroda wrote:

> There is a file named cxxfilt.exe in bnu281b.zip and gxx.exe in
> djdev202.zip. I'm not sure, why they are needed there since I believe they
> are C++-specific but the main problem is that there are files with same
> names (but different contents) in gpp281b.zip and one has to be carefull
> when installing DJGPP to do it in the right order: I'm not sure about
> cxxfilt.exe but gxx.exe from djdev202.zip does not work with C++
> installation (gpp281b.zip).

There's no need to be careful with cxxfilt.exe: both versions work the
same (they are almost identical).  Both GCC and Binutils distribution
come with cxxfilt (it's called c++filt on Unix), so both binary
distributions include them.  What did you want us to do?  We cannot
assume that people download both GCC and Binutils.

As for gxx.exe, there was a long discussion among the developers about
what to do with this unfortunate problem.  Several suggestions were
brought up, but sadly there was no agreement on what is the best way to
solve it.

Personally, I think that one of them should be renamed, and since
gxx.exe had its first debut in djdev, the one from gccNNNb.zip should
have another name.  But I failed to convince others.