Re: [rfa/doc] Updates to gdbint.texinfo

Stan Shebs
2001-06-29T13:46:00Z

Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 10:18:59PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> + @subsection File Names
> >> +
> >> + Any file that is used to build @value{GDBN} on either DJGPP or Cygwin
> >> + must be 8.3 compliant.
> >
> >I suggest to add here that file names which match but for the letter
> >case will make trouble on DOS and Windows, even if long file names are
> >supported.
>
> Right. Also the 8.3 rule is just for DJGPP. Cygwin/Windows has no
> problem with longer filenames.

Differs-only-in-case names also make trouble on Mac OS 9/X, if
the filesystem has been configured to be HFS (the usual situation)
instead of UFS.

Stan