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From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Release 7 of DJGPP port of fileutils 4.1
Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2003 10:28:08 +0100
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Hello.

bdeck wrote:
> 
> "Richard Dawe" <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk> wrote in message
> news:3F5791D7 DOT EB4697A5 AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk...
[snip]
> > Have you replaced a 2.04 alpha build of fileutils with fileutils 4.1
> > release 7 off DJ's site (or mirrors)? fileutils 4.1 release 7 was built
> > with DJGPP 2.03 and hence doesn't support symlinks.
> 
> Drat, that explains it! Maybe the next announcement should clearly explain
> which DJGPP version was to used to compile the package..

I think the rule is: Unless it says has been built with 2.04, you should
assume it has been built with 2.03. 2.04 is only an alpha release, after all.

Hopefully there won't be another release of 4.1. If there is, I will try to
remember to mention that it was built with 2.03 in the announcement.

> I wouldn't have upgraded if I had known that it was still built on 2.03. Up
> until now I have been using the fileutils from Clio.

Andrew Cottrell will probably rebuild fileutils 4.1 release 7 with DJGPP 2.04
alpha 1 sometime and put it up on Clio. So you should be able to get a version
with the fixes sometime.

Bye, Rich =]

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Richard Dawe [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ]