Sender: rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk Message-ID: <3E1B3673.9142BFB9@phekda.freeserve.co.uk> Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2003 20:20:03 +0000 From: Richard Dawe X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.23 i586) X-Accept-Language: de,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: DJGPP workers Subject: Re: m4 port: return program name as 'm4' not '/some/path/m4.exe' [PATCH] References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Hello. Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Richard Dawe wrote: [snip] > > How about if you rename config.guess.1 to config_guess.1 and do "man > > config.guess"? (E.g.: for short filename systems.) Answer: it doesn't > > find it. Eli: I didn't mean any offence by this. It was rhetorical. I don't think you took offence. > Well, sure it doesn't: there's no config.guess.* file anywhere in sight, > right? The `man' clone does not automatically map file names that are > invalid on 8+3 filesystems to something valid, I never coded anything > like that. All it does to support 8+3 filesystems is find truncated > files whose names were truncated, like config_g.1 in the above example. > I thought I was doing well just by having such a support ;-) Yes. ;) > > So what should I do with the autoconf 2.57 packages for systems with short > > filenames? > > IMHO, rename the files to something that will be valid on 8+3 volumes and > mention that in the DOS-specific README. OK, thanks. > > Perhaps man could try transforming all the dots to underscores, if it > > can't find it with dots? > > That would be a nice feature, I think, but someone will need to code it. > We could discuss possible designs, if you wish (there are a few subtle > issues, like whether we should support remap file a-la djtar etc.). I'll add it to my to-do folder. > In any case, packages released at this time should not depend on a > feature that doesn't yet exist in `man', so for now I think renaming the > files is the only practical alternative. I did that for Groff at the > time, so it's not like Autoconf will be the first. Yes, I agree. Thanks, bye, Rich =] -- Richard Dawe [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ]