On 23 July 2000, Rene Liebscher said:
In the latest cygwin binutils 2.10.90 is a bug in dllwrap. This new version of my patch tries now to find out the version numbers of gcc, ld and dllwrap, so we can inform the user if he is using a broken version of one of these programs.
Ugh. I guess version-checking is slightly better than crashing, but I hate that it's necessary. *grumble*
(I also found many tabs in distutils which were introduced by by my help-option patch. This patch replaces these tabs with spaces.)
This patch is getting too big for me to digest, and there are too many unrelated changes. Could you drop the tab fix (I'll do it myself -- been meaning to for a while now), and submit your fix to bcppcompiler.py separately from the other patches? *Then* I'll be able to comment sensibly on it. Thanks -- Greg -- Greg Ward - Linux geek gward@python.net http://starship.python.net/~gward/ An elephant: a mouse built to government specifications.