Out-of-date minit.obj in 2.054 zip

Nick Sabalausky a at a.a
Sun Jul 31 12:56:43 PDT 2011


"Don" <nospam at nospam.com> wrote in message 
news:j137a6$vlt$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> "Walter Bright" <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
>> news:j12ubk$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.

Really? I guess that solves it then.




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