GNU bug report logs - #13435
Please don't kill DJGPP support...

Previous Next

Full log

View this message in rfc822 format

From: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>
To: DJ Delorie <dj <at> delorie.com>
Cc: 13435 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13435: Please don't kill DJGPP support...
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 22:47:06 +0100

On 01/14/2013 10:38 PM, DJ Delorie wrote:
>> I also forgot to ask a rather important question: does modern DJGPP
>> on Windows 2000/XP/7 etc. support file names starting with a dot?
> 
> Just tested djgpp 2.04 with bash 2.05 on windows 7, and it can create
> files with a leading dot.
>
Well, then it appear we might actually have no problems in keeping DJGPP
support.  If the new code with split info files disabled works as expected,
re-instating support for DJGPP (on modern Windows version) will just mean
adding back few simple, unproblematic lines of code.

I will post a patch in a few days.  No need to hurry, since Automake 1.14
(which would have removed DJGPP support) is not due to appear for several
months at least.

Thanks,
  Stefano

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.