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From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 17:00:52 -0400
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Cc: mdejong AT cygnus DOT com
Subject: Re: "make" seems to be broken on Win95.
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In-Reply-To: <200004112054.PAA15038@hp2.xraylith.wisc.edu>; from khan@NanoTech.Wisc.EDU on Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 03:54:04PM -0500

I should also point out that discussions about 'make' are off-topic for
this mailing list.

Take a look at the cygwin mailing list web page for what is considered
on-topic.

cgf

On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 03:54:04PM -0500, Mumit Khan wrote:
>Mo DeJong <mdejong AT cygnus DOT com> writes:
>> Hi all.
>> 
>> I just tired to build the installer from the CVS when
>> I ran into a problem with make. Cygwin's version of
>> make pukes out if the case of a file differs from
>> what is expected in a build rule. Here is a quick
>> example.
>> 
>> BASH.EXE-2.03$ ls
>> MER.C     Makefile  error.c
>> 
>> BASH.EXE-2.03$ cat Makefile
>> SHELL=/bin/sh
>> 
>> %.o: %.c
>>         @echo converting $? to $@
>> 
>> all: error.o mer.o
>
>DJ already talked about this, so I'll just point out two quick items:
>
>- Make already has a (compile-time) provision for using case insensitive
>  filenames, but it breaks implicit rules in a horrible way. Is MER.C a
>  C++ file or is it a C file? Does the FOO.F file need to pre-processed 
>  or is it really just `foo.f'? Please remember that most of the tools
>  are just repackaged Unix tools, and lots of Unix'ism is buried quite
>  deep (eg., gcc's use of the filename extensions). 
>
>- Issues like this belong in the general list since this is more of an
>  "user tool" issue rather than the underlying API issue.
>
>The Cygwin mailing list has seen this discussion quite a few times before
>and should have it archived. It should be pretty easy to provide a command
>line or an env variable to choose this behaviour at runtime.