<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> On 2012-04-11 18:19, Stephan Bergmann wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:4F85AEF4.7040407@redhat.com" type="cite">My understanding is that we use "classic" paths (not starting with "\\?") whenever they are short enough, anyway.  So the problem cannot be solved with an #if, but (short of abandoning berkeleydb) needs to be worked around by making sure the LO installation is in a location with a short path (so that the paths of any files within the installation that are handed to berkeleydb are also short). </blockquote> "git grep db_create" says there 5 places within LO where we hand a path to berkelydb. Perhaps in that place we can convert to a 8.3 using the Win32 API <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(246, 246, 246); font-size: small; display: inline !important; float: none; ">GetShortPathName. Or we could unconditionally convert to a very long path (using "\\?") ? -- Noel <hr>Disclaimer: <a href="http://www.peralex.com/disclaimer.html">http://www.peralex.com/disclaimer.html</a> </body> </html>