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

[Richard Dawe]

Hello.

Gary V.Vaughan wrote:
[snip]
> On 23 Apr 2004, at 17:10, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
[snip]
> > So, 8+3 limitations may re-appear in some areas which use GNU build
> > tools.
>
>
> These would only be target hosts for a cross build though right? No one
> is actually going to host a full development environment on such machines
> these days, surely?

As suprising at it may seem, yes, people still do.

Recently someone asked in comp.os.msdos.djgpp what platforms people were 
using. I was surprised that the majority of people that replied were 
using processors <= 400 MHz and various DOSes.

I guess if it's possible to update libtool in a way that doesn't 
preclude running on 8+3 systems, then you should. But I know it's a 
right PITA.

Most of the problems I found when porting libtool 1.4.3 and 1.5 to DJGPP 
were the filenames being too long. That problem is easier to solve. 
Harder problems to solve are more than one period in a filename and 
filenames beginning with a period. If you can avoid those, then porting 
to DJGPP should be reasonably simple, in general.

Incidentally, DJGPP development is pretty much dead these days. No-one 
has stepped up to maintain any of the packages I used to maintain.

Thanks, bye, Rich =]

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