On 01/14/2013 10:38 PM, DJ Delorie wrote: >> I also forgot to ask a rather important question: does modern DJGPP >> on Windows 2000/XP/7 etc. support file names starting with a dot? > > Just tested djgpp 2.04 with bash 2.05 on windows 7, and it can create > files with a leading dot. > Well, then it appear we might actually have no problems in keeping DJGPP support. If the new code with split info files disabled works as expected, re-instating support for DJGPP (on modern Windows version) will just mean adding back few simple, unproblematic lines of code.
I will post a patch in a few days. No need to hurry, since Automake 1.14 (which would have removed DJGPP support) is not due to appear for several months at least. Thanks, Stefano
