To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: yet another question about gcc-2.3.3
From: alane AT wozzle DOT linet DOT org (J. Alan Eldridge)
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 93 21:59:26 EST
Organization: Disorganization

src4src!mcdhup!rutgers!chuug.ch!bernina!iis!arnstein writes:

> It seems that there is considerable interest in making djgpp compliant with g
> version 2.3.3.  It also seems that a principal obstacle to this goal is the
> existence of files in gcc-2.3.3 that have names longer than 8 characters.
> 
> My question is, what's the big deal?  Change a few file names, change the
> Makefile(s), problem solved (?).

Well, aside from the makefiles, there are the #includes in the source
files, making for a bunch of diffs that RMS doesn't want. So far DJ
has been able to get RMS to take his diffs because they weren't really
that invasive.... this would be much different, I'm afraid.

alane AT wozzle DOT linet DOT org (J. Alan Eldridge)
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