Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Message-Id: <199912080533.XAA25179@pluto.xraylith.wisc.edu> To: Eric Christopher 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 Eric Christopher 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 -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com