Hello, [ ccing Eli, a DOS expert ] On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 12:47:10PM +0100, Keith MARSHALL wrote: > Stepan Kasal wrote: > > 3) There is an MSYS build of bash. Though MinGW/MSYS is not ready > > to run Autoconf, you can use it to unpack a tarball and run ./configure > > there. > > I don't know where you get this idea from. I have been using Autoconf > 2.59 in the MSYS environment for at least nine months now, and prior > to that, Autoconf 2.56 for at least the past two years. I don't know either. :-) Thank you for your explanation. > Microsoft added long file name support in Win95 -- the first of the 32-bit > Windoze releases. The requirement to support 8.3 file names disappeared > with the demise of MS-DOS, around the same time. OK. So there is one more question: Eli: is there any need for ./configure to be compatible with 8.3 filesystems? Have a nice day, Stepan Kasal _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
