Re: Windows binary for make with HAVE_CASE_INSENSITIVE_FS flag

"James" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.make.windows
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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From: "Eli Zaretskii" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 1:20 PM
To: "James" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Windows binary for make with HAVE_CASE_INSENSITIVE_FS flag

>> From: "James" <[email protected]>
>> Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 09:37:45 -0400
>> 
>> I wanted to verify that the only way to get make to ignore filename =
>> suffix case (e.g. "JPG" vs. "jpg" vs. "Jpg") is to compile the source =
>> with the HAVE_CASE_INSENSITIVE_FS  flag set.  Is that correct?
> 
> Yes.
> 
>> Is there a way to get that behavior at runtime?
> 
> No, not currently.
> 
>> Is there a pre-built binary available?
> 
> No, I don't think so.  But if you have a working installation of GCC,
> you can build it yourself in a few seconds.
>

Thanks for the info.

Shouldn't HAVE_CASE_INSENSITIVE_FS be the default on a build for Windows?

Thanks
James
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