Re: [AD] watcom.txt update

["Eric Botcazou" <ebotcazou@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> The DJGPP archives are a bit... chaotic (specially the search engine). Anyway,
> it seems there were a few different patchs for it, but the one from:
> http://www.delorie.com/archives/browse.cgi?p=djgpp/2002/06/14/09:26:22
> seems to be the newer and easier to follow, but you need the latest update of
> djdev203.zip.

According to this thread:
http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=en&lr=&th=a9c3a18d0f4e2210
it seems that the informations needed to manually patch djtypes.h are included
in the README.DJGPP file of the gcc 3.1 archive. So I'm going to simpy include
a reminder of this fact in the FAQ.

> How about...
>
>
> --- cvs\allegro\docs\build\watcom.txt Mon Mar  4 08:54:16 2002
> +++ allegro\docs\build\watcom.txt Tue Jun 18 22:47:46 2002
> @@ -26,10 +26,12 @@
>     hardware drivers: the djgpp and Watcom versions are 100% identical in this
>     respect.
>
> -   This library should work with Watcom C versions 10.6 or 11.0, but I have
> -   no way to test anything but 10.6, and only minimal interest in
> -   maintaining this port, so I'm afraid you are pretty much on your own if
> -   you have problems with any different compiler versions.
> +   This library works with Watcom C version 10.6. The last available version
> +   (11.0c) can build the different flavours of the library, but because of a
> +   (very probably) problem with the linker, it cannot link Allegro programs.
> +
> +   Check Allegro Mailing List (messages between February 18 to 27, 2002) to
> +   get more info about this.

I think we should differentiate working 11.0 versions (presumably 11.0, 11.0a and 11.0b)
from the broken one.

> @@ -37,10 +39,10 @@
>  ============ Required software ============
>  ===========================================
>
> -   - Watcom C, version 10.6 or 11.0
> +   - Watcom C, version 10.6
>     - djgpp compiler (djdev*.zip, gcc*b.zip, and bnu*b.zip).
>     - GNU make (mak*b.zip).
> -   - Optional: sed (sed*b.zip). Used by "make depend".
> +   - sed (sed*b.zip). Used to build asm sources and by "make depend".
>
>     Except for the Watcom compiler itself, all of the above packages can be
>     downloaded from your nearest SimTel mirror site, in the

Same thing as above. But you have a point with sed: it is indeed required for the 10.6
version.

> Grammar struct or syntax corrections, welcomed. The "The makefile will try to
> guess..." should not be deleted, but might confuse the way it is. Suggestions?

What do you find confusing exactly ?

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Eric Botcazou
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