Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 13:48:34 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Tim Van Holder <tim DOT van DOT holder AT pandora DOT be>
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Subject: Re: W2K/XP fncase
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On 15 Oct 2001, Tim Van Holder wrote:

> I'd also vote for not downcasing files without extension.  My main gripe
> with the current FNCASE=n situation is that is downcases names like
> BUGS, COPYING, README, INSTALL, etc.  I'm not sure if there are many
> such files on a typical DOS system where downcasing _would_ be good
> thing.

Unfortunately, raw COFF files produced by the linker don't have 
extensions, as well as shell scripts.  If we don't downcase COFF files, 
Make will always want to remake all targets like this:

  foo: foo.o
	$(CC) $(LDFLAGS) $< -o $@ $(LOADLIBES)

Even worse, targets like below will always fail:

  all: foo