Re: The Dreaded "Missing Subunits"

[Keith Thompson <kst@cts.com>]

Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> writes:
> Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov> writes:
> > Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> writes:
> > > (I must admit, that wasn't easy in the days when operating systems
> > > had unreasonable limits on file names (like only one dot, or only 8
> > > characters). Are those bad-old-days over?)
> > 
> > I hope they are over. But we are stuck with their legacy; all of the
> > GNAT compiler source files are krunched to 8.3 names.
> 
> Yeah, I find that annoying.

And eminently fixable, if the ACT folks care to do it.

In the meantime, it shouldn't be too difficult to run a script over
the source directories that creates symbolic links with the full
names.  (Yes, I'm assuming a Unix-like environment.)

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