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From:	Andris Pavenis <pavenis AT latnet DOT lv>
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Subject:	Re: [karl AT gnu DOT org: [texinfo-pretest] texinfo 4.7.91 pretest available]
Date:	Fri, 17 Dec 2004 09:12:09 +0200
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On Thursday 16 December 2004 21:17, Juan Manuel Guerrero wrote:
> > 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

I haven't tested, but I'm afraid, that this will cause problems also on LFN 
system, when name numeric tails are disabled. Perhaps several of these
files will be lost also when unpacking source archive.

I myself don't disable name numeric tails already for a long time, after I got 
some file acidentially overwritten. Also at some package which I use have
huge number of such DOS 8+3 filename conflicts (for example GSL)

Andris

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