Re: libtool--gary--1.0--patch-14

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Thu, 22 Apr 2004, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:

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> Hi Bob!
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> Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> | One new issue I would like to bring up is that the new libltdl source
> | file names are not 14-character friendly.  It seems to me that libltdl
> | source file names should accommodate older Unix systems with
> | 14-character limits.  There is no reason not to do so.
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> Okay.  Does that mean you want them to be unique within the first 14
> characters?  Or that they should be no more that 14 characters long in
> total?

I don't know.  What do the GNU coding standards say regarding this?
Are there still provisions/requirements to support 14 character
filesystems?

There is also the 8+3 nightmare for MS-DOS systems.

Bob
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