From: richardson AT evansville DOT edu (Tony Richardson)
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Subject: Re: make says no makefile found, but the file is out there
Date: 8 Apr 2003 05:58:27 -0700
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Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de> wrote in message news:<b6rh7f$fog$1 AT nets3 DOT rz DOT RWTH-Aachen DOT DE>...
> Anton Lavrentiev <lavr AT ncbi DOT nlm DOT nih DOT gov> wrote:
> 
> > I renamed MAKEFILE into "makefile" all lowercase,
> > then it reads the file. But there is another problem:
> > %.o: %.c rule is not working because there are
> > DOS files around, all having ".C" extensions,
> > uppercased. 
> 
> This should *never* be a problem.  Neither DOS nor Windows really care
> about the case of filenames.  DJGPP has a runtime library setting that
> changes this, but I strongly disbelieve any distributed DJGPP binary has
> that set.

I've had the same "problem" with DJGPP make.  Files with a .C extension
are assumed to be C++ files instead of C files.  Either rename the
file or redefine the .o .C rule.

Tony Richardson