Subject:	Re: yet another question about gcc-2.3.3
To:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu (DJ's GPP mailing list)
Date:	Wed, 20 Jan 93 18:13:24 EST
From:	Stephen Turnbull <turnbull AT ecolan DOT sbs DOT ohio-state DOT edu>

> >It seems that there is considerable interest in making djgpp compliant with
> >gcc version 2.3.3.  It also seems that a principal obstacle to this goal is
> >the existence of files in gcc-2.3.3 that have names longer than 8 characters.
> >
> >My question is, what's the big deal?  Change a few file names, change the
> >Makefile(s), problem solved (?).
> 
> I don't know if this is the problem, but one thing which would make it more
> difficult is if some of the include files have long names.  Then source code
> changes would be necessary, possibly in many places.  One possibility would be
> a preprocessor to adjust names in #include statements.  (I thought about using
> command line args: -Dlongfilename=shrtname, but the C preprocessor won't do
> this.)
> 

Given that somebody (Alan E., I think it was) made the paranoid
suggestion that this is all a plot by RMS to make it impossible to
support Messy-DOG (sic) versions of GCC, maybe what we need to do is
write an AWK/Perl script to do it on the entire GCC distribution.
Then RMS's plot will fail, since we'll be ready the next time :->
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Stephen Turnbull
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