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Subject:	Re: The Future of DJGPP
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Newsgroup: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
 From: Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
 On Wed, 06 Sep 2000 02:22:13 GMT

>On Tue, 05 Sep 2000 22:36:44 +0100, Richard Dawe
><rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk> wrote:
>
>>Damian Yerrick wrote:
>>> 
>>> Richard Dawe wrote:
>>> 
>>> >As you say, it giveth with one hand (LFN) and taketh with the other
>>> >(nested exec). Maybe this problem will be cracked one day?
>>> 
>>> It'll be cracked for purposes of running make -> gcc -> cpp as soon
>>> as someone builds a Cygwin or MinGW hosted cross-DJGPP.
>>
>>Perhaps it would be beneficial to make DJGPP interoperate with these
>>programs better for the future?
>
>If nobody builds a Cygwin hosted DJGPP (like the Linux hosted DJGPP),
>we'll have to figure out how to use Cygwin make to call gcc using,
>say, a response file to pass >126 character command lines.

How about using the version of make distributed with MinGW? Or are
there problems I'm not aware of?

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