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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 11:08:24 +1100 (WET) From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@cygnus.com> Excerpts from mail: 14-Mar-99 Filename change to fit the .. Robert Hoehne@gmx.net (7475*) > -YYFILES = c-exp.tab.c \ >> +YYFILES = c-exp_tab.c \ To take the opposite viewpoint, why are we suddenly about to go to such efforts to accommodate 8.3 DOS file names? I believe that the DJGPP version of GDB has been diverging from the trunk over the past several years, and that people are only now looking into reducing the divergence. Supporting DJGPP will be extra work for the GNU project as a whole, which is why I wanted to find out if The Boss (aka RMS :-) ) was amenable. I think it would instead be better to provide a separate configury script (sed+sh?) that ran over the build directory and adjusted things ready for a DOS build? I did something like that for the Mac build process (those */mpw-make.sed files hanging about in GNU releases), and I can attest that this technique requires continual maintenance, thus is only desirable as a last resort. It's been pointed out that the filenames only need to be 8.3 unique, so it's not like every long file name would have to be shrunken, just the ones that doschk complains about. Stan