[2641] in Kerberos_V5_Development
Re: The dreaded windows build ...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Hornstein)
Thu Oct 23 14:45:12 1997
To: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU>
Cc: krbdev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 23 Oct 1997 14:30:39 EDT."
<199710231830.OAA26365@dcl.MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 14:44:39 -0400
From: Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
>The Krb5 source tree is carefully set up to have filenames which are
>unique to 8.3, and if you are using a filesytem which only understands
>8.3, it will truncate the long filenames to 8.3. That's why you don't
>have to muck with the Makefiles to know about the "short" names. You
>just have to use the appropriate kerbsrc-nt.zip or kerbsrc.zip as
>appropriate for your system.
Okay, I understand now. So, the "kerbsrc.zip" file would have built
fine on a FAT filesystem? (Because everything gets truncated?).
--Ken
