Re: Filename change to fit the "only one dot" limitation on DOS

Stan Shebs
1999-03-14T17:30:00Z

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