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Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 17:28:37 +0300
From: Andris Pavenis <andris DOT pavenis AT iki DOT fi>
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To: Juan Manuel Guerrero <juan DOT guerrero AT gmx DOT de>
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Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: release 2 of the DJGPP port of GNU Bash 2.04 uploaded.
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Juan Manuel Guerrero wrote:
>  This is release 2 of the port of GNU Bash 2.04 to MSDOS/DJGPP.
> 
>  DJGPP specific changes.
>  =======================
> 
>  This new release implements the foloowing two issues:
>  - A bug discovered and fixed by Andris Pavenis while porting gcc 4.3.0.
>    The functions that reads files had a brocken support of dos-style EOL.
>    Please read:
>    <http://www.delorie.com/archives/browse.cgi?p=djgpp-workers/2008/05/10/08:50:18>
>    <http://www.delorie.com/archives/browse.cgi?p=djgpp-workers/2008/05/10/09:48:44>
>  - An increment of the stack and the DOS transfer buffer for bash.exe and
>    sh.exe.  The stack has been incremented from 512k to 1024k and the DOS
>    transfer buffer has been incremented from 16k to 32k.  This values have
>    been proven to be usefull to compile the gcc sources and I think they
>    will not be harmfull for other applications.  If you do not like this,
>    you can always use stubedit to change one or both of them.
> 
>  The patch is called zread.c.diff and stored in /djgpp.  The binaries have
>  been compiled out-of-the-box from the existing sources (bsh204s.zip) using
>  gcc423b.zip, bnu217br2.zip and djdev203.

There were no need to update port of bash-2.0.4 for DJGPP v2.03r2. It worked
nicely without patch. Only port of 2.05b had problems.

Anyway there is perhaps no harm from patch also for bash-2.0.4 (I have not tested
it though)

Andris