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To:	Eric Christopher <echristo AT cygnus DOT com>
cc:	cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject:	Re: MAKE_MODE changes
In-Reply-To:	Your message of "Tue, 07 Dec 1999 17:03:18 PST."
	<384DAE56 DOT 8032DECC AT cygnus DOT com>
Date:	Tue, 07 Dec 1999 23:33:25 -0600
From:	Mumit Khan <khan AT nanotech DOT wisc DOT edu>

Eric Christopher <echristo AT cygnus DOT com> writes:
> 
> I have a customer complaining about make under a dos window.  Here's a
> brief summary of the problem:

[ pathname case sensitivity issue ]

I had one point done this, and then backed out as Unix Makefiles failed
on win32. One case in point is that even though it's case insensitive 
FS, you can still tell the compiler to do the right thing by using the
appropriate case for the extension. With this change, as the caveats
in the docs say, you lose the distinction between .c and .C and more
importantly, between .f and .F. I specifically point out the latter
because even though C++ programmers have slowly moved from using .C,
few Fortran programmers know about .fpp extension in addition to .F.

Even with this issue, I'm still somewhat in favor of this.

Regards,
Mumit


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