Re: Building with case-insensitivity

[E. Weddington]

Paul D. Smith wrote:

> %% "E. Weddington" <address@hidden> writes:
>
>  ew> I recently built 3.80 from the mingw sources, and apparently it
>  ew> built with case-sensitivity on. In looking at the archives, it
>  ew> seems to be implied that this can be turned off with a configure
>  ew> switch, correct?
>
>  ew> I haven't been able to find in the manual any list of configure 
>  ew> switches. What configure switch would turn case-sensitivity off?
>
>  ew> And will there be a section added to the manual about building make?
>
> No.  The manual is for using make, not building it.
>
> The instructions for building it are in the README* files in the source
> distribution.  The README.W32 file has information for building on a
> Windows platform, including a discussion of the case-sensitivity issue.
>
>  
Thanks for replying so quickly!

From that README, it looks like I would just have to add 
HAVE_CASE_INSENSITIVE_FS to config.h.

It would sure be nice to be able to add a configure switch to 
automatically do this for the upcoming 3.81 release.

Thanks again for your help,
Eric