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Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 23:27:19 +0300
From: Andris Pavenis <andris DOT pavenis AT iki DOT fi>
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Subject: Re: Please help me compiling GCC/GPP 4.1.2
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Gordon DOT Schumacher AT seagate DOT com kirjoitti:
> Andris Pavenis <andris DOT pavenis AT iki DOT fi> wrote on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 09:50:11
> +0300:
> 
> # Verify whether You are building on system that supports long
> # file names (Win9X, WinME, Win2K, WinXP is OK, plain MS-DOS
> # not. I don't know about FreeDos wven if it supports LFN)
> #
> # Also make sure that DJGPP bin directory is at the begin of DOS path
> # and remove no needed directories from the path.
> 
> FreeDOS (or even MS-DOS) will support LFN *on local drives only*
> (i.e., not a network-shared drive, but a ramdrive is okay) as long
> as you run DOSLFN which is distributed with FreeDOS.  I've used
> it successfully to build LFN-only packages under DOS (usually
> because I needed a v2.03 package).
> 

My doubts was due to tests with FreeDOS under DOSEMU in Linux.
In that case LFN works, but I had strange failure with sed (it
went into infinite loop and wrote all time to disk up to 2Gb instead
of writting normal Makefile libiberty directory. I have not tested
with FreeDOS for example under Vmware Server.