Automake Looks To Drop MS-DOS, Windows 95/98/ME

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Automake Looks To Drop MS-DOS, Windows 95/98/ME

Automake 1.13 was released on Friday with a number of major changes to this component of the GNU build system. With Automake 1.14, there's already a number of additional changes being considered...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTI2MzQ

[Ibidem]

There goes any chance of GCC 4.9+ on FreeDOS...

[duby229]

ooohh, That was a good catch. I don't suppose they are gonna let freedos hang though. I'm now wondering what could be done.

[Sonadow]

Dropping support for DOS and Win 95 is probably long overdue.

But I was hoping they retained support for Win 98, since I know it's still being used in a production capacity in certain environments.

[garegin]

i effing hate then OEMs use DOS/freedos for their utlities. many hdd controllers are not supported and the system is flaky. just use linux or winpe and stop annoying people.

[crazycheese]

There goes any chance of GCC 4.9+ on FreeDOS...

Upgrade to Linux.

[elanthis]

Man, DJGPP, those were the days. I wonder how many folks my age got started with C/C++ using that. Linux wasn't even able to run the GNU OS userspace tools at the time, iirc (not that I would even hear about Linux until almost 8 years later).

[Cthulhux]

Upgrade to Linux.

Downgrade, that is.

[crazycheese]

Downgrade, that is.

In your case, I won't even bother. You are better recycled.

[Cthulhux]

Oh, I love how the fanboys always make personal replies. Point proven.