Re: libtool--gary--1.0--patch-14

[Richard Dawe]

Hello.

Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
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> Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> | There is also the 8+3 nightmare for MS-DOS systems.
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> Is that relevant anymore?  Don't djgpp and mingw run on
> VFAT or NTFS nowadays?
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DJGPP has supported long filename since 2.00, I believe. But it's 
supposed to work on 8+3 systems. When I worked on DJGPP, I only bothered 
testing the port of GNU fileutils & coreutils on 8+3. I couldn't be 
bothered with the other packages (m4, perl, autoconf, automake, libtool, 
others that I forget) that I was the maintainer for.

There are several people using DJGPP on old systems running with short 
filenames. I don't have numbers - it's a bit hard to get solid numbers 
from a newsgroup (comp.os.msdos.djgpp). ;)

Note that I stopped working on DJGPP about 5-6 months ago. I don't 
really follow it anymore.

Bye, Rich =]

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