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Re: Windows binary for make with HAVE_CASE_INSENSITIVE_FS flag


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Windows binary for make with HAVE_CASE_INSENSITIVE_FS flag
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2010 15:53:56 +0300

> Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:42:47 +0000
> From: Greg Chicares <address@hidden>
> CC: James <address@hidden>, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
> 
> On 2010-07-01 20:40Z, James wrote:
> > 
> > Shouldn't HAVE_CASE_INSENSITIVE_FS be the default on a build for Windows?
> 
> Here's a test case which that would break:
> 
> http://old.nabble.com/Case-aware-file-matching-for-case-preserving-file-systems-td17297685.html

More generally, GNU Make is used with many projects that came from the
Posix world, and therefore expect case-sensitive filesystems.
Therefore, Make internals assume such a system in too many places, and
you need to fix them all before you'll have a truly case-insensitive
build of Make that won't trip on problems such as the one above.



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