2009/8/11 Ralf Wildenhues <[email protected]>: > Hello Reuben, > > * Reuben Thomas wrote on Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 09:00:43PM CEST: >> >> Is there any recommended way of testing for an 8.3-limited file >> system? I have just put in a little work better to support DJGPP in >> GNU Zile (precisely the sort of target system at which Zile aims, i.e. >> resource-constrained). At the moment it still needs patching to work, >> partly because of bugs in DJGPP and autotools, but also partly because >> of the use of the ".zile" filename, which should be "_zile" on DOS. If >> there's none, is there a good check which I could make into an >> autoconf-archive macro? > > While I don't have a ready-made check at hand, I think you should decide > for yourself whether you want to support LFN only or SFN also, as > defined in 'info Autoconf "File System Conventions"'. This node also > describes several limitations that you could use to test and may need to > cater to.
Thanks for the pointer, which indeed seems to give enough material to detect LFN/SFN, which is a good starting point. -- http://rrt.sc3d.org Il ne vaut pas la peine de peigner l’eau
