From: whitten AT netcom DOT com (David Whitten)
Subject: Re: GNUMAKE help...
28 Jul 1998 06:23:25 -0700
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Cc: jalvo AT cloud9 DOT net (John G. Alvord)

> 
>  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'm probably the worst one to ask, but have you tried a two step rename?
ie: rename FILENAME unusedname
    rename unusedname filename


David (whitten AT netcom DOT com)

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