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: 8 Apr 2003 08:30:16 GMT
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> From: Manni Heumann <manni DOT heumann AT gmx DOT de>

[case sensitive make]

> I think this is because W2K's implementation of the LFN API
> sucks big time (and the same for XP).  IIRC, one of those bugs
> prevented automatic downcasing of 8+3 file names, such as
> MAKEFILE.  You should build Make with a patched DJGPP library
> (or get a prebuilt version from Charles W2K Sandmann's page), to
> have that fixed. 

OK. I guess my memories of encountering this on Win98 are wrong then? 
Nobody seen this on any other OS?


I don't think that I need to fix this, since all the tools I use 
respect my use of case and I always choose lower case anyway.


Thanks for the information,

Manni