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Re: [rfa/doc] Updates to gdbint.texinfo
- To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at is dot elta dot co dot il>, Stan Shebs <shebs at apple dot com>
- Subject: Re: [rfa/doc] Updates to gdbint.texinfo
- From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2001 14:21:00 -0400
- Cc: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <3B3CC68E.3040504@cygnus.com> <1483-Fri29Jun2001221859+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il>
>> + behavour.}
>
>
> There's a typo in the last word.
And I did use Ispell this time :-/
>> ! @end example
>> !
>> ! and not:
>> > + @example
>
> The "and not:" part above needs a @noindent before it.
Done.
>> + @subsection File Names
>> +
>> + Any file that is used to build @value{GDBN} on either DJGPP or Cygwin
>> + must be 8.3 compliant.
>
>
> I suggest to add here that file names which match but for the letter
> case will make trouble on DOS and Windows, even if long file names are
> supported.
I reworded it. It talks about the build process.
@subsection File Names
Any file used when building the core of @value{GDBN} must be in lower
case. Any file used when building the core of @value{GDBN} must be 8.3
unique. These requirements apply to both source and generated files.
@emph{Pragmatics: The core of @value{GDBN} must be buildable on many
platforms including DJGPP and MacOS/HFS. Every time an unfriendly file
is introduced to the build process both @file{Makefile.in} and
@file{configure.in} need to be modified accordingly. Compare the
convoluted conversion process needed to transform @file{COPYING} into
@file{copying.c} with the conversion needed to transform
@file{version.in} into @file{version.c}.}
Any file non 8.3 compliant file (that is not used when building the core
of @value{GDBN}) must be added to @file{gdb/config/djgpp/fnchange.lst}.
@emph{Pragmatics: This is clearly a compromise.}
When @value{GDBN} has a local version of a system header file (ex
@file{string.h}) the file name based on the POSIX header prefixed with
@file{gdb_} (@file{gdb_string.h}).
For other files @samp{-} is used as the separator.