DOS ain't dead - Free Pascal questions

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posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 28.08.2008, 04:30

> > Apropos: I can't unpack LD.EXE (or other binaries you borrow from
> DJGPP),
> > because FP still uses the DJGPP 2.03-current chain, where Binutils were
> > compressed by a "crazy" UPX build. (Blame Gordon Schumacher of Seagate.
> > :-D ) Juan Manuel Guerrero later released new binaries (no
> compression)for
> > the 2.04-beta chain. Better to switch over, I think.
>
> Depends. For such a change, some testing needs to be done by people that
> actually understand dos/dpmi issues. I don't. Filing a bug about it can
> help avoid it being forgotten, and act as a kind of forum to discuss it
> and exchange epxeriences

Gordon is MIA, haven't seen him around online lately, and his old (year-old) e-mail address just bounces now. Besides, his compiles (/beta/, not /current/) were 686+ only! So I think (from memory) that FPC is doing the right thing by sticking to /current/. Not sure why it doesn't unpack, though, but you (rr) and I have both reported some of that to UPX authors previously as a potential bug. As long as AS assembles and LD links correctly, I wouldn't majorly worry about it.

P.S. Juan Manuel Guerrero had issues with a linker script re: building latest TexInfo, so he reverted his reversion of BinUtils 2.17 (686+ again, meh). Better to e-mail him regarding what issues he had, even if you do decide to rebuild your own.

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