Re: Windows binary for make with HAVE_CASE_INSENSITIVE_FS flag
Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]>
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> Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:42:47 +0000 > From: Greg Chicares <[email protected]> > CC: James <[email protected]>, Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> > > On 2010-07-01 20:40Z, James wrote: > > > > Shouldn't HAVE_CASE_INSENSITIVE_FS be the default on a build for Windows? > > Here's a test case which that would break: > > http://old.nabble.com/Case-aware-file-matching-for-case-preserving-file-systems-td17297685.html More generally, GNU Make is used with many projects that came from the Posix world, and therefore expect case-sensitive filesystems. Therefore, Make internals assume such a system in too many places, and you need to fix them all before you'll have a truly case-insensitive build of Make that won't trip on problems such as the one above.