From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 11529@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#11529: redoing gnulib import to avoid 8+3 glitches
Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 20:56:25 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83txz9xvsm.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FB9B2B5.3000807@cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 20:12:53 -0700
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> CC: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
>
> --- msdos/INSTALL 2012-01-19 07:21:25 +0000
> +++ msdos/INSTALL 2012-05-21 03:00:32 +0000
> @@ -73,6 +73,10 @@
> 67-character limit on the file-name length imposed by DOS filesystems.
> When prompted by `djtar' for a different name for these files, just
> press [Enter] to skip them: they are not needed for the DJGPP build.
> +Similarly, unpacking complains that the file names m4/gnulib-comp.m4
> +and m4/gnulib-common.m4 clash when truncated to DOS 8.3 limits; when
> +prompted by 'djtar' for an alternate name for m4/gnulib-comp.m4,
> +choose the name m4/gl-comp.m4.
>
> If you want to print international characters, install the intlfonts
> distribution. For this, create a directory called `fonts' under the
>
> === modified file 'msdos/sedlibcf.inp'
> --- msdos/sedlibcf.inp 2012-01-05 09:46:05 +0000
> +++ msdos/sedlibcf.inp 2012-05-21 03:00:32 +0000
> @@ -19,4 +19,5 @@
> #
> # ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> s/c++defs/cxxdefs/g
> +s/gnulib-comp\.m4/gl-comp.m4/g
> s/\([a-zA-Z0-9_]*\)\.in\.h/\1.in-h/g
Thanks, but I'd rather we don't go that way. We've been through this
before: this cure is worse than the disease, certainly for me. The
one package where I actually tried that (GDB) proved to me that this
way lies madness.
Is this the best that can be done? Could the offending file be
renamed in gnulib in some way that eliminates the problem?
If not, just leave the file at its original name, without any changes
to MS-DOS specific files, and I will find my own solution that will
not bother anyone but me.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-21 17:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-21 3:12 bug#11529: redoing gnulib import to avoid 8+3 glitches Paul Eggert
2012-05-21 17:56 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2012-05-21 19:05 ` Paul Eggert
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=83txz9xvsm.fsf@gnu.org \
--to=eliz@gnu.org \
--cc=11529@debbugs.gnu.org \
--cc=eggert@cs.ucla.edu \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.