On 01/23/11 20:01, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> The program used to unpack the .tar.gz archives automatically renames
> ant .FOO files to _FOO while unpacking, so that's not a problem.
OK, so it sounds like there's already part of a solution here,
in that files are automatically renamed to avoid the MS-DOS
restrictions.
How about if we expand on that solution, as follows:
* Just before creating a tarball for MS-DOS, apply
the following substitutions to the contents of all
files that go into the tarball:
s/c++defs\.h/cxxdefs\.h/g
s/\([a-zA-Z0-9_]*\)\.in\.h/_\1.h/g
The latter substitution, for example, replaces all
instances of unistd.in.h with _unistd.h.
* Similarly, just before creating the tarball, rename
all the source files according to the above patterns.
* The above can be done in the make-dist implementation
for MS-DOS.
* The conflicting names in m4/* don't matter, for the same
reason that conflicts in admin/* and tests/* don't matter:
these files are not used in an MS-DOS build.
With this approach, the problem of MS-DOS names is handled
entirely in the MS-DOS port.
