Re: Building with case-insensitivity

[E. Weddington]

Earnie Boyd wrote:

> <quote who="E. Weddington">
>  
>
> > Paul D. Smith wrote:
> >
> >    
> >
> > > %% "E. Weddington" <address@hidden> writes:
> > >
> > > ew> It would sure be nice to be able to add a configure switch to
> > > ew> automatically do this for the upcoming 3.81 release.
> > >
> > > I'm not sure what you mean by "a configure switch".  As far as I know
> > > (and I'm no expert since I don't build/use the Windows port) you don't
> > > run configure (which is a POSIX shell script) on Windows; instead you
> > > rename the appropriate config.h* file.  So, a configure switch wouldn't
> > > help.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >      
> > I'm building from the mingw patched version of make, and I'm building it
> > in Cygwin (obviously a POSIX environment), using GCC. I'm not building
> > using MS's compilers as recommended in that particular README. So, in
> > this case, having a configure switch would be helpful, for example:
> > -----------------------------------------------
> > CC="gcc -mno-cygwin"
> > ../$archivedir/configure \
> >        --prefix=$installdir \
> >        --host=mingw32 \
> >        --build=mingw32 \
> >        --with-case-insensitive-fs
> >        2>&1 | tee make-configure.log
> >
> > make all install 2>&1 | tee make-make.log
> > -----------------------------------------------
> >
> > And the "--with-case-insensitive-fs" switch would automatically #define
> > HAVE_CASE_INSENSITIVE_FS in config.h.
> >
> >    
>
> What does ``./configure --help'' show?  The MinGW patched set has a switch
> similar to that.
>
>
>  

Yep. There it is. The slightly wordy: --enable-case-insensitive-file-system.
Thanks for pointing this out.

My mistake was assuming that the MinGW version of make would've 
defaulted to having this enabled on configure for a mingw host, not 
disabled.

Thanks again,
Eric