Re: [[email protected]: texinfo 4.7.91 pretest available]

On Wed, 15 Dec 2004,Eli Zaretski wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 10:08:36 -0500
> > From: [email protected] (Karl Berry)
> > Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
> > 
> >     This will make the package compile out-of-the-box if and only if long file
> >     name support is available.
> > 
> > Why can't it compile if there is no long filename support?
> 
> Yes, why?  Juan, could you please tell what problems prevent it from
> building on plain DOS 8+3 filesystems?
> 
> TIA

There are two file name types that resolve to the same dos 8.3 file names.
INTTYPES.M4    : texinfo-4.7.91/m4/inttypes-pri.m4
		                texinfo-4.7.91/m4/inttypes.m4
		                texinfo-4.7.91/m4/inttypes_h.m4
ONCEONLY.M4    : texinfo-4.7.91/m4/onceonly.m4
		                   texinfo-4.7.91/m4/onceonly_2_57.m4
It can be assumed that the authors will not change the file names to meet the plain
dos file name requirements so it should be thought about the use of same sort of
mechanism like the one used in the gdb port or in fileutils IIRC. This means
using a fnchange.lst with appropriate8.3 clean names for translation for the
source package decompression and if needed an appropriate modification
of /djgpp/config.sed to fix the makefiles for the new names.

HTH
Juan M. Guerrero
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