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Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 21:37:16 +0300
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Build problems
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> From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
> Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 09:09:05 -0500 (CDT)
> > 
> > Getting Make to be really insensitive to file-name letter-case
> > requires heavy changes in Make sources, since it uses strcmp, and
> > there's no clear indication whether the compared strings are file
> > names or parts thereof, or just strings.  So I decided not to do that
> > after considering the issues involved.
> 
> OK, no problem.  I was just *really* confused why it was doing this,
> now I know.  If it were not for make -d and that cryptic message - I'd
> probably still be looking ...

See README.DOS in the Make distribution (there are a few more
subtleties described there ;-).

> A libc "make" certainly shows it very early - I think when definining
> some symbols (shell built-in)?  Something in popen or similar?

Yes, it's probably $(shell): it calls `popen', and `popen' uses
temporary file names djNNNNNN.

> > (Yes, you guessed it: my wife got a notebook with W2K Professional.)
> 
> Welcome to the W2K club.  Be nice to her so she'll let you borrow it :-)

Well, for now I use it more than she does, since she wants me to
install and set up all kinds of things there ;-)

Btw, the file-name completion in W2K's cmd.exe seems to be broken: you
cannot customize the completion character, even though "cmd /?" says
you should be able to.  No matter what I did, I couldn't get TAB to
complete, only (the default) C-f.  Am I missing something, or is it a
bug?  The Knowledge Base is silent about this (more accurately, it
repeats the story told by "cmd /?").

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