Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 09:11:54 +0200 (IST) From: Eli Zaretskii X-Sender: eliz AT is To: Andris Pavenis cc: "Mark E." , djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: autoconf 2.13 test version available In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Andris Pavenis wrote: > > After taking another look at the autoconf Makefile, it appears that *.inf* > > is good enough.The info files are already provided prebuilt and unsplit > > in the source. And if you delete them, they are rebuilt using the --no- > > split option. To build the split files for the binary package, I had to run > > makeinfo outside Windows to generate the .i? files. > > Perhaps it would be nice to be able to force this behaviour of makeinfo also > with LFN=Y (maybe with some environment variable) Which behavior do you want to force? If you want it to create short 8+3 names like *.i? instead of the long *.info-? ones, just set LFN=n temporarily. After all, LFN *is* an environment variable. > in automake works Ok with LFN=Y. There are still some failures with LFN=N. > I uploaded both sources and binaries of automake-1.4 and they are already > in v2gnu. FWIW, I think it's really bad that a port only works reliably under LFN. Sadly, several ports done lately are showing a consistent trend to be not tested and not reliable enough without LFN. I wish people could make some additional effort to make the ports more clean in this aspect, before they upload the distribution. It is not right to assume that non-LFN environments are insignificant and can be ignored.