Date:	Wed, 20 Jan 1999 09:11:54 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
X-Sender:	eliz AT is
To:	Andris Pavenis <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv>
cc:	"Mark E." <snowball3 AT usa DOT net>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: autoconf 2.13 test version available
In-Reply-To:	<B0000064815@stargate.astr.lu.lv>
Message-ID:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.990120091019.2569F-100000@is>
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Reply-To:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com

On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Andris Pavenis wrote:

> > After taking another look at the autoconf Makefile, it appears that *.inf* 
> > is good enough.The info files are already provided prebuilt and unsplit 
> > in the source. And if you delete them, they are rebuilt using the --no-
> > split option. To build the split files for the binary package, I had to run 
> > makeinfo outside Windows to generate the .i? files.
> 
> Perhaps it would be nice to be able to force this behaviour of makeinfo also 
> with LFN=Y (maybe with some environment variable)

Which behavior do you want to force?  If you want it to create short
8+3 names like *.i? instead of the long *.info-? ones, just set LFN=n
temporarily.  After all, LFN *is* an environment variable.

> in automake works Ok with LFN=Y. There are still some  failures with LFN=N.
> I uploaded both sources and binaries of automake-1.4 and they are already
> in v2gnu.

FWIW, I think it's really bad that a port only works reliably under
LFN.  Sadly, several ports done lately are showing a consistent trend
to be not tested and not reliable enough without LFN.  I wish people
could make some additional effort to make the ports more clean in this
aspect, before they upload the distribution.

It is not right to assume that non-LFN environments are insignificant
and can be ignored.

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