Re: Insensitive wildcard matching

[Earnie Boyd]

Alessandro Vesely wrote:

> I wrote:
>  
>
> >   APKGDIR := c:/candidata/path
> >   APKGCHECK := $(wildcard $(APKGDIR)/include/custx.h)
> >   ifeq "$(APKGCHECK)" ""
> >      APKGDIR := d:/other/candidate/path
> >      APKGCHECK := $(wildcard $(APKGDIR)/include/custx.h)
> >   endif
> >
> >   [...]
> >
> > And, if anybody knows a better way to code the above search...
> >    
>
> After rtfm and tinkering a bit, I came out with
>
>   define searchpath
>      $(patsubst %/$(1), %, $(firstword $(wildcard $(addsuffix /$(1), $(2)))))
>   endef
>   APKGDIR := $(call searchpath,include/custx.h,c:/candidate/path 
> d:/other/candidate/path)
>
> Hmmm... this group is not very talkative during the weekends.
>
> For the sake of discussion, I posted a patch to avoid improper use of tempnam
> https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=9748
> The patch also contains a couple of `i' inserted into `streq' so as to allow
> executing uppercase internal commands such as ECHO. Perhaps that may break unixy
> shells that don't tolerate capital executions...
>  
I don't agree with the uppercase commands!  Please don't allow this as 
it is non-conformant and windows OS is non-conformant enough.

Earnie

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