Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 14:05:48 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Compatibility problem: Cygwin make and makefile filename case Message-ID: <20001121140548.B15340@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20001121150210.A45996@koma.free.de> <4.3.2.7.2.20001121133745.03bd8cd0@pop.ma.ultranet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20001121133745.03bd8cd0@pop.ma.ultranet.com>; from lhall@rfk.com on Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 01:40:23PM -0500 On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 01:40:23PM -0500, Larry Hall (RFK Partners Inc) wrote: >At 09:02 AM 11/21/00, Frank Ellert wrote: >>Hi! >> >>There is a compatibility problem with Cygwin-make and the makefile >>filename case. Cygwin-make doesn't accept "MAKEFILE" (but "makefile", >>"Makefile" or "GNUmakefile") which is treated the same as "makefile" >>by (at least some) other LFN-aware tools, i.e. Info-ZIP's unzip and >>DJGPP ls. >> >>So if you call a makefile "makefile" and put it into a ZIP archive, >>there is the possibility that it is unpacked as "MAKEFILE" and >>displayed as "makefile" but Cygwin make doesn't find it. >> >>It was great if you could fix that problem by making Cygwin make also >>look for "MAKEFILE". >> >>I'm sorry, I don't read the mailing list. So please reply to me >>directly. >> >>And please excuse possible mistakes. English is not my mother >>language. > >The best response I can give you is that you'll need to provide a specific >example along with the output of cygcheck -s -r -v. Its hard to say whether >this is a real problem or a configuration issue without these details. The cygwin make release has not been modified to search for additional makefile patterns under Windows. It looks like make will scan the current directory looking for specific matches on things like GNUmakefile, makefile, and Makefile, so MAKEFILE is not matched. In general, all cygwin tools reflect their UNIX heritiage, so it is safest to use the same case for filenames under cygwin as under UNIX. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com