New Alpha: EMX run time library broken?_(re)

Sun, 27 Apr 97 13:29:16 -0400

On Wed, 23 Apr 1997 21:47:37 +0200 (MET DST), Peter Gerwinski wrote:

>I was reported that the EMX run time library of the latest alpha GPC
>(gpc-970420) is broken:  Not even `hello.pas' can be linked.
>
>Since I cannot reproduce the error on my own system (I can link even
>more complicated EMX programs here ... :-) I ask whether somebody else
>has observed the same problem.  Perhaps there is a bug which only shows
>up in some configurations ...

Well I was the one who reported the above problem to Peter and after
messing around for 5 days trying to apply the patches, compile it myself,
using gdb to trace the source, I have found the problem:  I'm a moron.

I found I had an older version of the gpc executables in my path before the
newer versions, but I was putting the library in the correct place.  [For
various reasons, I don't like putting anything except the EMX distribution
in the \EMX directory tree.] So when I tried to compile hello.pas, the old
2.0 executables were trying to use the new runtime library from the latest
alpha and things didn't go well.  So, my apologies to Peter and to anyone
else who might have wasted time looking for a fix to this problem.

-Kevin
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