The DOS version of Borland-C++ 3.1 has problems with the amount of debug
information that must be handled by the linker/librarian. Creating DOS
programs with debug info is not possible using this compiler version.
Because of that, the makefiles are somewhat out of date. The debug info
problem should be solved in newer versions of the compiler.
The GNU compiler has a somewhat weird handling of templates, prohibiting the
use of older versions of spunk with those compilers.
Ralf W. Stephan worked out the changes
that are necessary to support those compilers. Thanks a lot.
Note: This has never been a problem with FreeBSD since FreeBSD does not use the
GNU linker.
The serial module is currently not available for DJGPP. The original modules
are written in the IDEAL mode of Turbo Assembler - unfortunately the assembler
that comes with DJGPP (as) cannot translate those files and the linker is not
able to link files created by TASM, so the only solution is a complete rewrite.
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