Out-of-date minit.obj in 2.054 zip

Don nospam at nospam.com
Sun Jul 31 02:29:21 PDT 2011


Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Walter Bright" <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
> news:j12ubk$dqd$2 at digitalmars.com...
>> On 7/30/2011 3:50 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>> The file "dmd2\src\druntime\src\rt\minit.obj" in the 2.054 zip is out of
>>> date WRT the matching asm file. (At least as far as the timestamps, I 
>>> don't
>>> know about the actual file content.) On systems without masm386 
>>> installed,
>>> this causes automated DMD builders to fail without manual user 
>>> intervention.
>>> Is it too late to get that fixed?
>>>
>>>
>> Just do a 'touch' on the minit.obj.
> 
> That's no good for an automated DMD-building tool. If the automated tool 
> does the "touch", then if someone changes minit.asm, the obj will never get 
> rebuilt. The "touch" would have to be left up to the user to do manually.
> 
> 
Nobody should ever change minit.asm.


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