From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Nasrat Subject: Re: New version of Bob's C compiler Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 23:34:32 +0100 Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20020724223432.GB7170@raq465.uk2net.com> References: <000b01c2335e$a93a2e20$61be580c@who> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ELKS On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 11:15:48PM +0100, Riley Williams wrote: > Hi Gregg. > > > Go ahead folks and send me flaming mail off list, but here goes. > > If a new one has been posted to his page, then will it be mirrored > > anywhere on the general ELKS pages, and FTP sites? > > Who wants to conduct a poll to decide whether this is a good or bad > idea? I can see viewpoints both ways... > > FOR: Much of ELKS becomes simpler with the latest facilities. > > AGIN: ELKS becomes dependent on having the latest BCC compiler. True, elks should be still compilable on the common distro Dev86 package. However, I will go and package up both a Mandrake style and RedHat stye rpm and be happy to submit those to all, if we can encourage package maintainers to update then it's not too nasty to ask ppl who compile from source to ensure they are using a recent edition. By the looks of it Debian unstable is on 0.16.3 anyway so are probably keeping an eye out on Robert's page. Maybe we should say the next major release of Elks will require a recent Dev86, and concentrate on helping distro's get the most recent Dev86 and dosemu and elksemu happily working. Then we can try and clean up the code based on new compiler features. BTW, I think things are broken for SIBO atm, need to fix but need time... Paul