New GPC beta: gpc-971001_(re)

Thu, 02 Oct 1997 13:28:52 +0100 (MET)

Peter:

>
>together with binaries for DOS (DJGPP), and Linux (ELF).  Binaries for
>DOS and OS/2 (EMX) and FreeBSD will follow as soon as possible.
>

There seems to be a problem with the new DJGPP version (I downloaded the zip
file gpc-971001.i386-djgppv201.zip from /beta/binary subdirectory).  

With the 971001 version, I still get the "incompatible pointer type" that was
supposed to be fixed (minor problem, of course), and (much worse) the linker
now complains about undefined references to certain library functions -- in
my case the exp() and ln() functions.


There is another strange (very) problem with the DJGPP archive: 

I get wrong timestamps for certain files when unzipping the DJGPP archive
with InfoZip's UnZip version 5.31 (the most recent version).  The files are
OK, though (no corruption).  The problem does occur with version 5.12, or
with PKunzip.  Moreover, the timestamp problem only affects certain files in
the DJGPP archive, basically those in the /bin, /lib and /info subdirs.  All
files dated (timestamped) prior to 19-FEB-1997 are OK!

This problem (whether it is with unzip 5.31, or zip archive itself) also
occurs with the 970714 beta version (again, DJGPP).

I don't think its a bug in InfoZip (?) because I haven't observed the problem
with other zip archives.

Jesper Lund
jel@hha.dk

Jesper Lund (jel@hha.dk)