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GNU make / DJGPP make difference? (Developers)

posted by Rugxulo Homepage, Usono, 02.09.2008, 22:49

> I found the reason. Unbelievable. Anything worked, but make. After copying,
> deleting and renaming my folder everything worked. Guess somehow I trashed
> a part of my filesystem.
Well, FAT is not exactly immune to corruption. DOSFSCK is your friend. :-D Anyways, two other notes I forgot to mention:

FreeDOS Edit? It's not a bad editor, but it has a 64k filesize limit, which is kinda lame, IMO, but whatever. Of course, it's got a nice UI, so I guess it's still somewhat usable. (Heck, some people would say your sources shouldn't exceed 64k just for maintenance reasons.)

Also, since you said you're working on pure FreeDOS, don't forget that FAT can only store times in limited format: e.g. the seconds field only records every other second. So, you'll always have 01:05:02pm and never 01:05:03pm. So on a moderately fast machine (e.g. CWS's 550 Mhz P3 running super-fast Borland C), sometimes you can have problems rebuilding small projects. Not a huge issue, just a little quirk to be aware of.

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