From: Manni Heumann <manni DOT heumann AT gmx DOT de>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: make says no makefile found, but the file is out there
Date: 7 Apr 2003 15:21:50 GMT
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Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:

> This should *never* be a problem.  Neither DOS nor Windows
> really care about the case of filenames.

Interesting! I encountered this long ago and thought it would be yet 
another step in compatibility and portability.

I just renamed "makefile" from one of my projects to "MAKEFILE":
make.exe: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.

make -v
GNU Make version 3.79.1, by Richard Stallman and Roland McGrath.
Built for i386-pc-msdosdjgpp


Next, I changed the name of the makefile back and changed the file 
names from *.c to *.C and make would complain about missing rules for 
its targets.

Changed everything back to lowercase and the makefile would work 
perfectly.

This is on W2k SP3, but IIRC I noticed the same behavior running 
Win98SE.


Manni