From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Damian Yerrick wrote:

> >Also LFN support IS required (so You need Win95 or Win98 to build
> >DJGPP port of gcc-2.95.2).
> 
> So the "free software" status of DJGPP is contingent on the purchase
> of Microsoft(R) Windows(R) 95 or Microsoft(R) Windows(R) 98?  That
> bugs me.

Then how about sitting down and making it possible to build GCC
without long file names?  In my experience, it's never hard to achieve
that.  I did that for many packages, including some that are very
complex, like Binutils and GDB.  Others have done similar things for
other packages.

I'm sure that Andris will happily accept patches to make this happen.