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From: Andris Pavenis <pavenis AT latnet DOT lv>
To: fdonahoe AT wilkes DOT edu
Subject: Re: bsh205bs compiled
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 17:05:39 +0300
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On Wednesday 06 October 2004 14:17, you wrote:

> These are further adventures with Windows XP Home Edition
>
> I compiled your recently downloaded beta package, bsh205bs.zip with
> the djgpp-2.04 alpha tools using gcc-3.4.2 also recompiled with the
> alpha tools.  There were no problems with the compilation.  The
> following warnings were issued.
>
> ./../../lib/sh/getenv.c: In function `setenv':
> ./../../lib/sh/getenv.c:172: warning: assignment discards qualifiers \
>         from pointer target type
>
> ./../../lib/readline/bind.c: In function `rl_function_of_keyseq':
> ./../../lib/readline/bind.c:584: warning: comparison is always true \
>         due to limited range of data type
> In file included from ../../../lib/readline/bind.c:1394:
> ./../../lib/readline/bind.c: In function `rl_variable_bind':
> ./../../lib/readline/bind.c:1377: warning: passing arg 1 of \
>        `bool_to_int' discards qualifiers from pointer target type
>
> ./../../lib/readline/display.c: In function `rl_character_len':
> ./../../lib/readline/display.c:1669: warning: comparison is always \
>         true due to limited range of data type
>
> ./../../lib/malloc/malloc.c:243: warning: integer constant is too \
>         large for "unsigned long" type
>
> I was surprised that the last was only a warning.  Someone had written
> 4294967296UL - 1.

I really didn't do much changes. Most significant reason for this update
was some critical problems with version available from clio.rice.edu
(that was recommended for use with Win2000 and WinXP, but I found that
it has serious problems)

> Is bash expected to pass "make check?"  It makes all sorts of errors
> and finally goes off to never-never land after issuing the following
> last words
>
> run-printf
> 24d33
> < whoops: printf %b and $'' differ
> run-quote
> run-read

There were rather many failures also for me. The main thing I wanted to 
achieve was stable enough version, which I could use to configure and build
various packages for DJGPP (also to run my own scripts). Not much other tests 
were done and I don't plan tham in near future.

Andris

PS. Please use DJGPP mailing list instead of mailing me directly.