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Re: Old bug: the 14-character limit.
On Fri, 2003-05-23 at 23:31, DJ Delorie wrote:
> > In the case I mentionned, there are multiple files with the same 25
> > first characters and the same extension, so I guess it's out of DJGPP
> > league anyway :).
>
> Only if it needs to be installed.
>
> And I fail to see the humor in excluding DJGPP as a platform. GCC has
> supported DJGPP (or at least been built for it) since version 1.35.
I'm just trying to understand what are the requirements to follow,
I asked if they were documented, since I had no reply I assume they
aren't (undocumented requirements are obviously harder to follow :). If
I do some guesswork on the replies so far:
- As far as we're not too far from 100 (portential tar limit) or 250
characters (more common limit on modern file systems)
for files needed during the build, and that includes DJGPP, right?
(I don't know DJGPP, so I assume there's some distinction
between build and use once installed.)
- If one wants to install a compiler on a platform, 8+3 name uniqueness
for all files to be installed is required for the compiler to be
useable under the DJGPP platform.
Laurent