Date: Sun, 4 Apr 1999 09:21:41 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Fw: LBInstDJ - second, improved version
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On Fri, 2 Apr 1999, DJ Delorie wrote:

> > As I told before, my own DJGPP installation is in C:\Programming\DJGPP\
> > I haven't encountered any problems yet, but maybe because I haven't ever 
> > tried to run it from plain DOS.
> 
> Try setting LFN=N in djgpp.env and/or in your environment, and try to
> run gcc that way.

This should only be a problem if numeric tails aren't turned off, in
which case the installation is not supposed to work for LFN=n at all.

I agree that for everybody's safety a non-LFN directory is better, but
having an installer insist on that is IMHO a Bad Thing, 'cause
somebody might know what they are doing.  It might be a better idea to
check whether DJGPP.ENV is accessible via the DJGPP variable setting.