From: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com (Earnie Boyd) Subject: Re: GNUMAKE help... 28 Jul 1998 03:16:49 -0700 Message-ID: <19980727172937.11717.rocketmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@send1a.yahoomail.com> Reply-To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: "John G. Alvord" Cc: gw32 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" 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 > - > For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to > "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help". > == - \\||// ---o0O0--Earnie--0O0o---- --earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com-- ------ooo0O--O0ooo------- _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".