Hi!
1-Авг-2006 16:52 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to
freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net:
>> Currently EMM386 isn't complete - there are no working build batch
>> files, so only you yourself may compile EMM386 (and check result).
MD> EMM386 is sufficiently complete for now: it works for the largest number of
MD> endusers
I mean incomplete in sense of "package" - EMM386 executable may be
used, but not recompiled. Because there _missing_ build subsystem. And, for
example, your requirement, that all proposed changes for EMM386 should be
first checked, is not satisfying without this subsystem.
MD> that we can make it work for, which is FreeDOS 1.0's goal as I
MD> understand it. The batch and make files aren't for me. They're for Tom's
MD> setup and I have my own.
_We_ _not_ have your "own batch and make files". This is what I mean.
MD> If someone cannot figure out the trivial changes
MD> needed to rebuild EMM386 properly on their system,
Issue is, that NO changes (in source code) should be performed for
rebuild! And, with missing subsystem, you can't "change" void (trivially or
not), you should each time design new!
MD> I guarantee you that whatever batch and makefile changes you made, and
I _not_ make changes, I _introduce_ missing/non-working subsystem.
MD> however well you think they work, they don't work for everyone.
? Kernel build subsystem is proven to work.
MD> Open
MD> Watcom is still iterating through makefile modifications after how many
MD> years?
? What you mean? And how OW currently relates to EMM386?
MD> You wish me to make a bunch of last-minute cosmetic and nonoperational or
MD> nonalgorithmic changes
No! I wish:
1. add _missing_ subsystem (which is MUST be present for developers).
2. fix bugs (for example, "1024*1024").
3. clean source (8 places, like adding prototype before calling function or
replacing "asm mov ah,function", where "function" is 16-bit variable, by
"asm mov ah,byte ptr [function]"), to make other compilers happy
(especially not much of peoples use TCPP instead TC).
Looks like you completely miss patch in my previous post - it _not_ "bunch
of changes", there changed 8 lines (including one bugfix) and added 6 lines
(prototype and two #if 0/#endif).
MD> a week or two before FreeDOS has the biggest moment
MD> in its history? No, thank you. Three months back, maybe. Now, no way.
We discuss those changes longer!
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