Re: Windows binary for make with HAVE_CASE_INSENSITIVE_FS flag

[Cesar Strauss]

On 2/7/2010 09:53, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:42:47 +0000
> > From: Greg Chicares<address@hidden>
> > CC: James<address@hidden>, Eli Zaretskii<address@hidden>
> >
> > 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.

I think I have found a way for GNU Make to accept a mix of 
case-sensitive and case-insensitive rules on Windows. Unfortunately, I 
do not have the time to create a proper polished patch for contribution. 
I attach my current work below, in the hope that it will be useful. I 
also include a test-case for it.

Regards,
Cesar

Makefile
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mixed_case_rules.patch
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