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Subject:	Re: Fwd: [Texinfo] Remove DJGPP support files?
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Hi Gavin,

I personally am not using it.  However, a fair number of GNU-related 
utilities that have DJGPP build options are mostly done on cross 
compilers or Win9x dos boxes because, as you mentioned, it's practically 
impossible to build a lot of this stuff now without long file name support.

It's the holidays so we may not hear from anyone else for a couple of 
weeks, but I do know there is one person on here who does keep up with 
compiling many of the tools.  I believe it's Andre but I am not sure 
offhand.

Thanks,
Frank

On 12/23/2024 3:58 PM, Gavin Smith (gavinsmith0123 AT gmail DOT com) [via 
djgpp AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> Hello DJGPP users, I was advised to ask you about whether anybody
> uses recent Texinfo releases on DJGPP.  We are considering removing
> what attempts at supporting DJGPP currently exist.  See my mail below
> to the Texinfo development list.
>
> It is likely we will remove attempts at supporting DJGPP unless there is
> evidence that somebody is actually using it successfully.
>
> Best regards
> Gavin
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Gavin Smith <GavinSmith0123 AT gmail DOT com> -----
>
> Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2024 17:40:17 +0000
> From: Gavin Smith <GavinSmith0123 AT gmail DOT com>
> To: bug-texinfo AT gnu DOT org
> Subject: Remove DJGPP support files?
>
> There is still a top-level directory in the Texinfo distribution
> called "djgpp".  I don't remember any reports from anybody building
> or running Texinfo on DJGPP.  All the mailing list posts I could find
> on it are from over 10 years ago.  I don't know if Texinfo would still
> build on this platform.
>
> We still have a comment in configure.ac:
>
> AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h:config.in])dnl Keep filename to 8.3 for MS-DOS.
>
> I doubt this is relevant any more as many of the filenames are much longer,
> especially in texi2any.  I very much doubt that the package could be built
> on a system with 8.3 length filenames (although I am not sure to what
> extent DJGPP programs could use longer filenames).
>
> Unless there are reports that a recent release of Texinfo acually builds
> and runs on DJGPP (most relevant would be releases with the Perl texi2any,
> after version 5.0) and that this is useful to somebody, then I would
> propose removing the code that purports to support it.  This would be
> the "djgpp" subdirectory and a small amount of platform-conditional
> code elsewhere.
>
> ----- End forwarded message -----

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