Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 12:07:45 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Jon Brogdon <ra5748 AT email DOT sps DOT mot DOT com>
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Subject: Re: DJGPP, GDB and Remote Targets
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On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, Jon Brogdon wrote:

> the make utility under NT) on the v2 port of GDB for DJGPP v2.  I have LFN=y
> in djgpp.env.  I have not encountered any problems with LFN with my current
> configuration.  I understood that this would enable the use of LFN, however
> you suggested that I change it to LFN=n.  Was this a typo--or did I
> misunderstand something?  In either case, I will try it.

On NT, it doesn't matter how do you set LFN, since the long file names
are not supported there.

If you are tryting to build GDB on Windows 9X, and it doesn't work,
try setting LFN=n, since I think the source distribution that is
available on SimTel.NET is not LFN-clean (meaning some files are
truncated to 8+3 limits).

> I also looked at GDB 4.17 from the GNU site to see if DJGPP was supported.

The DJGPP port of GDB 4.17 is in the works.  If you cannot wait, I
suggest to start with 4.16 which should be possible to build with
DJGPP (I did that myself several times).