From: Martin Str|mberg <ams AT father DOT ludd DOT luth DOT se>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Question on GPP 2.8.1 and DJGPP
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 20:59:50 +0000 (UTC)
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chris.danx <chris DOT danx AT ntlworld DOT com> wrote:
: Hi,

: I'll get straight to the point.  Have the sources for GPP 2.8.1 been modified in
: anyway recently?  More specifically have some of the file names been changed
: ever so slightly?  I ask since I'm trying to build the GNAT for DOS compiler via
: DJGPP, which utilises GPP 2.8.1 and DJGPP and have run into errors upon
: application the diff file DJGPP.diff.  The error i get relates to a file
: "configur.lan" in the gcc-2.8.1 directory, which patch tells me doesn't exist.
: I confirmed this but did note that there is a file "configure.lang".  Either the
: names have been modified by the GNAT DOS compiler maintainer, modified by the
: GPP 2.8.1 maintainers or the diff file is erroneus.  The GNAT DOS maintainer can
: apparently build with the GPP 2.8.1 distribution he has, since there is a copy
: of the binaries available.

Sounds like the diff was made on a non-LFN aware platform. You could
try setting LFN=n, apply the patch and then reset LFN=y (or remove it
if it wasn't defined).


Right,

						MartinS