Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 21:37:16 +0300 From: "Eli Zaretskii" Sender: halo1 AT zahav DOT net DOT il To: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu Message-Id: <7263-Sun16Sep2001213716+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> X-Mailer: Emacs 20.6 (via feedmail 8.3.emacs20_6 I) and Blat ver 1.8.9 CC: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com In-reply-to: <10109161409.AA04737@clio.rice.edu> (sandmann@clio.rice.edu) Subject: Re: Build problems References: <10109161409 DOT AA04737 AT clio DOT rice DOT edu> Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk > From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann) > Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 09:09:05 -0500 (CDT) > > > > Getting Make to be really insensitive to file-name letter-case > > requires heavy changes in Make sources, since it uses strcmp, and > > there's no clear indication whether the compared strings are file > > names or parts thereof, or just strings. So I decided not to do that > > after considering the issues involved. > > OK, no problem. I was just *really* confused why it was doing this, > now I know. If it were not for make -d and that cryptic message - I'd > probably still be looking ... See README.DOS in the Make distribution (there are a few more subtleties described there ;-). > A libc "make" certainly shows it very early - I think when definining > some symbols (shell built-in)? Something in popen or similar? Yes, it's probably $(shell): it calls `popen', and `popen' uses temporary file names djNNNNNN. > > (Yes, you guessed it: my wife got a notebook with W2K Professional.) > > Welcome to the W2K club. Be nice to her so she'll let you borrow it :-) Well, for now I use it more than she does, since she wants me to install and set up all kinds of things there ;-) Btw, the file-name completion in W2K's cmd.exe seems to be broken: you cannot customize the completion character, even though "cmd /?" says you should be able to. No matter what I did, I couldn't get TAB to complete, only (the default) C-f. Am I missing something, or is it a bug? The Knowledge Base is silent about this (more accurately, it repeats the story told by "cmd /?").