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To: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 19:25:32 +0200
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Subject: Re: Building gdb 5.0
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On 3 Oct 2000, at 19:35, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> > From: pavenis AT lanet DOT lv
> > Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 17:19:00 +0200
> > 
> > 2) The same but I set LFN=N for test
> 
> This configuration is not guaranteed to work.  Non-LFN build was only
> tested on DOS, not on Windows.  (The difference is that on Windows,
> the non-DJGPP programs, like COMMAND.COM, do not obey the LFN
> environment variable.)
> 
> > Unpacking and configuring was Ok (except not significant 
> > filename conflicts).
> 
> Hmm?  The special batch file which you should use to unpack is
> supposed to rename files on the fly to prevent these conflicts.  How
> come it didn't work for you?
> 

This was mentioned in initial announcement about GDB-5.0 in DJGPP mailing list:

http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/mail-archives/browse.cgi?p=djgpp/2000/05/23/07:00:55	

> Which files were in conflict, anyway?  Did you build stock v5.0
> distribution or some snapshot?
> 

gdb-5.0.tar.gz

> >  Make failed due to attempt to make symbolic link
> > (subdirectory bfd and perhaps others). Adding
> > 	export ac_cv_prog_LN_S="cp -p"
> > to djconfig.sh fixed that
> 
> ???  Don't you have a share/config.site file?  It comes with Bash and
> sets LN_S=ln.  This is what should take care of this problem, I think.
> 

Sorry, my fault:  share/config.site was not found with LFN=N ...

Andris