Re: automake 1.7.2 & DJGPP: test names too long for uniqueness in 8+3

[Tim Van Holder]

> >>> "Richard" == Richard Dawe <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> [...]
> 
>  Richard> They can be longer than 8 characters in the stem and 3
>  Richard> in the extension, so long as they truncate into
>  Richard> something unique in 8 characters in the stem and 3
>  Richard> characters in the extension - DJGPP will still accept
>  Richard> the long filenames in these situations and they will
>  Richard> be truncated "behind the scenes".
> 
> Has anyone ever written some code to check for such conflicts?
> Maybe Automake should provide such a feature.  For instance
> `AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = dos-check' could cause `make distcheck'
> to check the source and build trees for conflicting names.

There's a GNU tool, doschk, that checks for DOS & System V
filename issues; it takes a list of filenames from stdin and
reports all naming issues to stdout.