[jira] Commented: (FOR-325) Building in Windows98

["Brian M Dube (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Brian M Dube commented on FOR-325:
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Windows 98 support. Close?

> Building in Windows98
> ---------------------
>
>                 Key: FOR-325
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOR-325
>             Project: Forrest
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Compile
>         Environment: Windows 98
>            Reporter: Senen de Diego
>            Priority: Minor
>         Attachments: w98tcdiff.txt
>
>
> As it is, is not possible to build forrest in Windows 98, because command.com shell doesn't permit an equal "=" sign in batch variables.
> I've done a patch to build forrest in Windows 98 using TakeCommand as shell. Take Command is not free but it's the only one I've found to do that. There is a free shell, 4DOS, from the same firma (jpsoft) but it has a limitation of 511 charactars for command, which make it useless for this.
> I've suggest also a couple of changes:
> Stop dupplicating commands, both for Windows_NT and WINNT values of 
> %OS%. 
> Stop calling forrestpath.bat and appendcp.bat from within a FOR loop (there is already a loop in both batch files so I think the first loop isn't necessary).

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