Re: A couple of patches w.r.t. the target `path-check'

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Stefano,

* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 05:50:28PM CEST:
> However, I noticed that a lot of failures crop up with `make path-check',
> either with or without my patches installed (these failures are listed
> below).  So I have a question: is the `path-check' target still relevant?

Only for targets like DJGPP it would be relevant.  I'm not sure it makes
sense to try to accommodate it.  Without somebody showing a lot of
interest in it, and also be willing to regularly test both Autoconf and
Automake on this target, and keep it working there, I'd say don't bother
much with path-check.

> Or equivalently: is the Automake distribution really still expected to be
> successfully deployed on a host with the 14-characters length limit for
> filenames?  I personally don't even know if a such system is still used
> in practice, but I have no experience with ancient or "exotic" hosts at
> all, so you might know better.

DJGPP is the only one I know of that still exists.  The exact rules
required for it are documented in (autoconf.info)File System
Conventions.

Cheers,
Ralf