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Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 09:46:30 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com
Subject: ANNOUNCE: DJGPP ports of many packages recompiled
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This is to announce that the DJGPP ports of many GNU packages have
been recompiled with DJGPP v2.03 and uploaded to SimTel.NET.  Minor
bugs, as reported by users since the initial uploads, were also fixed
in some of the packages.

The credit for doing all this hard work goes to Juan Manuel Guerrero
<ST001906 AT HRZ1 DOT HRZ DOT TU-Darmstadt DOT De>.  Thanks!

The main motivation for the rebuild was to have these tools support
new features introduced with DJGPP v2.03, such as /dev/env, and avoid
the library bugs corrected in v2.03.

People who build GNU packages or otherwise use Bash should consider
downloading at least Fileutils, Findutils, Sed, and M4.  Updating
ID-Utils should be also a good idea.

Here's the list of the uploaded packages:

Packages uploaded to v2gnu:
bc103b.zip   B    132,229 000522 GNU bc 1.03 for DJGPP V2
cpio242b.zip B     82,874 000522 GNU cpio 2.4.2 for DJGPP V2
cvs110b.zip  B    631,795 000522 CVS configuration control package
ed-02b.zip   B    106,430 000522 GNU ed 0.2 for DJGPP V2
ens150b.zip  B    450,560 000522 GNU enscript 1.5.0 for DJGPP V2
flx254b.zip  B    192,733 000522 GNU Flex 2.5.4 for DJGPP V2
gdbm173b.zip B     41,795 000522 GDBM 1.7.3 binaries
gzp124ab.zip B    124,591 000522 GNU gzip 1.2.4+alpha for DJGPP V2
idu32b.zip   B    359,802 000522 GNU id-utils 3.2 for DJGPP V2
m4-14b.zip   B    125,649 000522 GNU m4 1.4 binaries for DJGPP V2
sed302b.zip  B    121,070 000522 GNU sed 3.02 for DJGPP V2
fil316b.zip  B  1,199,604 000530 GNU fileutils 3.16 for DJGPP V2
fil316s.zip  B  1,182,058 000530 GNU fileutils 3.16 sources
find41b.zip  B    305,225 000530 GNU findutils 4.1 for DJGPP V2
find41s.zip  B    391,210 000530 GNU findutils 4.1 sources
isp3120b.zip B    713,279 000530 GNU ispell 3.1.20 for DJGPP V2
isp3120s.zip B    822,644 000530 GNU ispell 3.1.20 sources

Packages uploaded to v2apps/tex
dtl060b.zip  B     92,105 000513 DTL package
dvdj09b.zip  B    983,352 000513 DVI drivers for DeskJet 500/500c/550c printers
dvdv11b.zip  B     51,614 000513 Dvi2Dvi package
dvga09b.zip  B    986,750 000513 A DVI previewer for VGA (src in dvdj09s.zip)
dvlj26b.zip  B  1,348,429 000513 DVI drivers for LaserJet printers
dvps578b.zip B  1,330,287 000513 DviPS driver
gspk116b.zip B    241,059 000513 GSFtoPK font-conversion program
kpse32b.zip  B  1,027,257 000513 Kpathsea library
lchk126b.zip B     61,556 000513 LaCheck program
mflx083b.zip B     48,804 000513 MusicFlex program
midx213b.zip B    108,761 000513 MakeIndex program
odps578b.zip B    154,438 000513 Omega DviPS package
pspk15b.zip  B    308,065 000513 PS2Pkm font-generation program
seet31b.zip  B    177,434 000513 Seetex package
t4ht-a8b.zip B  1,180,623 000513 TeX4Htm program (generates HTML)
webc72b.zip  B  3,473,296 000513 Web and Web2c

In most of the cases, only the binary distributions were uploaded, as
sources were not changed.  In the few cases where there were minor
source changes (see below), the source distributions were also
replaced with the new ones.

Here's the list of fixed bugs:

  * `df' from Fileutils no longer crashes for inaccessible drives

  * `install' from Fileutils supports executable files without the
    .exe extension

  * It is now possible to interrupt `find' from Findutils by pressing
    Ctrl-C

  * ispell.el and ispell.elc were removed from the Ispell
    distribution, to avoid overewriting newer versions that come with
    Emacs

  * The `iwhich' script in the Ispell distribution now works with
    DJGPP

  * All man pages are now distributed in formatted form.