There is still a top-level directory in the Texinfo distribution
called "djgpp".  I don't remember any reports from anybody building
or running Texinfo on DJGPP.  All the mailing list posts I could find
on it are from over 10 years ago.  I don't know if Texinfo would still
build on this platform.

We still have a comment in configure.ac:

AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h:config.in])dnl Keep filename to 8.3 for MS-DOS.

I doubt this is relevant any more as many of the filenames are much longer,
especially in texi2any.  I very much doubt that the package could be built
on a system with 8.3 length filenames (although I am not sure to what
extent DJGPP programs could use longer filenames).

Unless there are reports that a recent release of Texinfo acually builds
and runs on DJGPP (most relevant would be releases with the Perl texi2any,
after version 5.0) and that this is useful to somebody, then I would
propose removing the code that purports to support it.  This would be
the "djgpp" subdirectory and a small amount of platform-conditional
code elsewhere.

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