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From: corinna DOT vinschen AT cityweb DOT de (Corinna Vinschen)
Subject: Re: %.o: %.c - case sensitive
23 Dec 1998 07:53:21 -0800 :
Message-ID: <3680D9FF.18CE38E0.cygnus.gnu-win32@cityweb.de>
References: <Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 93 DOT 981222115540 DOT 21867B-100000 AT modi DOT xraylith DOT wisc DOT edu>
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To: Mumit Khan <khan AT xraylith DOT wisc DOT edu>, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

Mumit Khan wrote:
> 
> The trouble is that make uses strcmp after the filenames are munged
> appropriately for various platforms (eg., DOS and VMS needs the munging)
> part. However, for win32, it's more or less left in the same state and
> hence strcmp can't match it. I remember looking at this a while back
> and my conclusion was that a minor tweak to make.h to change the
> definition of "streq" for win32 to handle filenames case insensitively
> should fix the problem. The caveat here is that I didn't look into it
> enough to know what else might break in the process.

Wouldn't this break Sergeys coolview dll with it's mixed-case option?

Regards,
Corinna
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