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Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 13:40:23 -0500
To: Frank Ellert <fe AT koma DOT free DOT de>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: Compatibility problem: Cygwin make and makefile filename
  case
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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.
>
>Frank



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.



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