Mail Archives: cygwin/1998/07/28/03:16:49
Create the filename patterns like this
[Ff][Ii][Ll][Ee][Nn][Aa][Mm][Ee]
It's messy and hard to read but at least it won't matter which letters
are lower and which are upper.
---"John G. Alvord" <jalvo AT cloud9 DOT net> wrote:
>
> I have spent a couple days trying to use the GNUmake Cygnus binary
> (19.1beta) and have run into a puzzle I can't solve. If someone could
> supply a clue, I will be on my way fixing the bug or supplying the
> needed option.
>
> I am in a NT environment, porting a fairly large UNIX/OS2 make file
> suite. The last problem seems to be that the make processing does not
> recognize the case insensitivity of the NT file system. I have a
list
> of target files, expressed all in lower case ala unix. The files exist
> on NT but are mostly upper case internally (because they come from a
> source archive that keeps them in upper case). A pattern rule can't
find
> them. When I make a copy of the files involved, and copy one back so
it
> has a lower case name... then the pattern rule triggers. I can't just
> rename them all to lower case because the rename command belives that
> filename and FILENAME are the same and refuses to do the deed.
>
> I would appreciate any hints.
>
> I have read all the doc, and some of the source (main.c/read.c/job.c)
> and can't find any references. I am running using MAKE_MODE=UNIX
because
> I need the sh.exe facilities.
>
> Thanks for your time!!
>
> john
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