Date: Sat, 6 Sep 1997 10:02:07 -0700 (PDT)
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To: pjfarley AT dorsai DOT org (Peter J. Farley III), djgpp AT delorie DOT com
From: Nate Eldredge <eldredge AT ap DOT net>
Subject: Re: Rebuilding gcc - "make install", "configur.bat" both  fail
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At 02:55  9/3/1997 GMT, Peter J. Farley III wrote:
>============== First problem =========================

>Please, what is the (presumably manual) procedure one needs to follow
>to do the equivalent of "make install"?  Should I just cut out what's
>in makefile and shell it?  TIA for your help on this.
Yes. I think it's documented somewhere that the `make install's don't work
for most DJGPP programs. You're supposed to just copy the EXE's into your
bin directory.
>
>============== Second problem =========================

>In each case, the "if [not] exist <file>" uses long names, but expects
>to succeed even if the only files available are truncated 8.3 format.
>I have tested these statements with "echo found" as the action instead
>of the above actions, and they consistantly fail under Win95/DOS, just
>as consistantly as they succeed in DOS 6.22 (which is what I have
>available of the DOS 6+ versions).
>
>If I'm not mistaken, this is a problem that cannot be solved simply.
>I just wanted to report the failure so others are not surprised by it.
>Although changing all of the long names in the "configur.bat" file to
>their short names would probably fix it, I'm not entirely certain that
>that would be the better long-term solution.  (See my next post re:
>suggestions for future DJGPP development for my other thoughts on
>this.)
Seems to me making the `gcc2721s.zip' file LFN-clean, as has been suggested
before, would fix this. On LFN systems, the files will have their long
names, and it will work. Then on non-LFN systems, things will work as before.
Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, I have no experience on LFN systems.

Nate Eldredge
eldredge AT ap DOT net