From: Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
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Subject: Re: Make and filename case
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On Tue, 18 Apr 2000 11:28:55 +0200 (IST), Eli Zaretskii
<eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:

>On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Rossz wrote:
>
>> %.o: %.s
>> 	$(AS) $*.s -o $*.o
>> 
>> I found if the filename has an extension of .S (big letter) instead of
>> .s, this rule is not used.  On DOS/Windows systems, it should ignore the
>> case when checking rules, in my opinion.
>
>If the rule says ".s", then why does the file have a .S extension?  .S
>is interpreted by GCC differently than .s (see section 8.5 of FAQ for
>details).
>
>You could simply rename the file to have a .s extension, that should
>solve the problem.

That wouldn't work in plain DOS, where renaming the file to lowercase
doesn't do a thing, as DOS's canonicalizer uppercases all filenames.

My 2c

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