From:	"Juan Manuel Guerrero" <ST001906 AT HRZ1 DOT HRZ DOT TU-Darmstadt DOT De>
Organization:	Darmstadt University of Technology
To:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date:	Tue, 11 Apr 2000 07:49:49 +0200
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Subject:	suggestion for config.bat (texinfo-4.0)
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first:
This two lines are from config.bat from texinfo-4.0:

   set HOSTNAME=%HOSTNAME%, %OS%
   if not "%HOSTNAME%" == "%HOSTNAME%, %OS%" goto SmallEnv

Suppose that HOSTNAME has been set to FOO and OS has been set to MS-DOS.
In line #1 HOSTNAME will be set to "FOO, MS-DOS".
The test in line #2 will ALWAYS fail because:

   left hand side:  HOSTNAME="FOO, MS-DOS"
   right hand side: HOSTNAME="FOO, MS-DOS, MS-DOS".

This is certainly a bug. No mather how large the user
chooses the environment size, the batch file will always
abort with the error message:

   Your environment size is too small.  Enlarge it and run me again.
   Configuration NOT done!

second:
This concern only people using 4DOS v6.X with MSDOS v 6.X and probably
other SFN environments. 4DOS does NOT truncute long file names to short
file names when it runs its internal commands like ren, copy, del, etc.
This means that the following command will ALWAYS fail:
   ren install-sh.sh install-sh
The above command gives the following error messages:
   File not found "install-sh.sh"
   0 files renamed
if 4DOS v 6.X and MSDOS v 6.X are used.
There is NO restriction for the DESTINATION file name,
but the SOURCE file name MUST be a valid 8.3 file name
or the command and config.bat will not work properly.
The following command will work:
   ren install-??.sh install-sh

A patch based on config.bat from texinfo4.0 follows.

Regards,
Guerrero, Juan Manuel.

*** config.bat.orig	Wed Sep 29 18:26:10 1999
--- config.bat	Mon Apr 10 22:47:32 2000
***************
*** 56,75 ****
  set HOSTNAME=%USERNAME%'s PC
  if not "%HOSTNAME%" == "%USERNAME%'s PC" goto SmallEnv
  :userdone
! set HOSTNAME=%HOSTNAME%, %OS%
! if not "%HOSTNAME%" == "%HOSTNAME%, %OS%" goto SmallEnv
  :hostdone
  set OS=
  
  
  Rem install-sh is required by the configure script but clashes with the
  Rem various Makefile install-foo targets, so we MUST have it before the
  Rem script runs and rename it afterwards
! if not exist install-sh if exist install-sh.sh ren install-sh.sh install-sh
  echo Running the ./configure script...
  sh ./configure --src=%XSRC% --infodir=/dev/env/DJDIR/info --disable-nls
  if errorlevel 1 goto CfgError
! if not exist install-sh.sh if exist install-sh ren install-sh install-sh.sh
  echo Done.
  goto End
  
--- 56,77 ----
  set HOSTNAME=%USERNAME%'s PC
  if not "%HOSTNAME%" == "%USERNAME%'s PC" goto SmallEnv
  :userdone
! set _HOSTNAME=%HOSTNAME%, %OS%
! if not "%_HOSTNAME%" == "%HOSTNAME%, %OS%" goto SmallEnv
! set HOSTNAME=%_HOSTNAME%
  :hostdone
+ set _HOSTNAME=
  set OS=
  
  
  Rem install-sh is required by the configure script but clashes with the
  Rem various Makefile install-foo targets, so we MUST have it before the
  Rem script runs and rename it afterwards
! if not exist install-?? if exist install-??.sh ren install-??.sh install-sh
  echo Running the ./configure script...
  sh ./configure --src=%XSRC% --infodir=/dev/env/DJDIR/info --disable-nls
  if errorlevel 1 goto CfgError
! if not exist install-??.sh if exist install-?? ren install-?? install-sh.sh
  echo Done.
  goto End
  

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