Mail Archives: djgpp/2000/04/03/09:37:16
On 2 Apr 2000, at 9:57, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Damian Yerrick wrote:
>
> > >Also LFN support IS required (so You need Win95 or Win98 to build
> > >DJGPP port of gcc-2.95.2).
> >
> > So the "free software" status of DJGPP is contingent on the purchase
> > of Microsoft(R) Windows(R) 95 or Microsoft(R) Windows(R) 98? That
> > bugs me.
>
> Then how about sitting down and making it possible to build GCC
> without long file names? In my experience, it's never hard to achieve
> that. I did that for many packages, including some that are very
> complex, like Binutils and GDB. Others have done similar things for
> other packages.
>
> I'm sure that Andris will happily accept patches to make this happen.
Main problem:
we'll not able to get binary distribution identical to one
we'll get with LFN support. Therefore I prefer cross-building under
Linux (instead of doing that under plain DOS).
Andris
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