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

[Gary V . Vaughan]

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Hi Bob,

On 23 Apr 2004, at 17:10, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Richard Dawe wrote:
> > 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). ;)
>
> Microsoft claims patent to the scheme used to store long filenames in
> the FAT filesystem and now charges hefty licensing fees (I heard a
> base price of $250K) for the right to commercially use versions of FAT
> which support long filenames.
>
> This means that embedded systems which are still tied to MS-DOS (or
> open/free DR-DOS) may end up reverting to 8+3 FAT in order to avoid
> sending Microsoft a lot of money.
>
> There is also potential impact for other operating system's which use
> or support extended FAT (QNX, vxWorks, etc.).
>
> So, 8+3 limitations may re-appear in some areas which use GNU build
> tools.

These would only be target hosts for a cross build though right? No one
is actually going to host a full development environment on such 
machines
these days, surely?

Cheers,
        Gary.
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