Re: Old bug: the 14-character limit.

[Phil Edwards <phil at jaj dot com>]

On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 10:22:01PM +0200, Laurent GUERBY wrote:
> According to my experiments, the longest file name in the gcc source
> tree is 48 characters: gnu_java_awt_peer_gtk_GtkCheckboxMenuItemPeer.c
> in libjava/jni/gtk-peer/.

Like DJ said, we don't care about name length for building, only for
installing, and most of us don't even care very much about that.  :-)

> Is there a documented upper limit on file name length for the gcc tree?
> If not is there a common wisdom upper limit?

Some versions of (non-GNU) tar have a 100-char limit on certain names.

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