Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 23:38:07 +0100 From: Frank Ellert To: Earnie Boyd Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Compatibility problem: Cygwin make and makefile filename case Message-ID: <20001121233807.A73049@koma.free.de> References: <20001121202501.2771.qmail@web117.yahoomail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20001121202501.2771.qmail@web117.yahoomail.com> Accept-Language: de, en Content-Language: en Organization: Die ueblichen Verdaechtigen X-Copyright: (C) Copyright 2000 by Frank Ellert -- All rights reserved. X-PGP-Key: (DSA), (RSA) X-Homepage: Earnie Boyd writes: >Cygwin is emulating UNIX and IIRC the defacto standard for UNIX is for the make >file to be named makefile or Makefile. The GNU version of make has also >allowed for GNUmakefile as well to allow for a native make and the GNU make to >coexist in the same architecture. > >You have been given the source code and should be able to patch read.c of GNU >make to do what you want it to. Isn't Open Source great? Thank you for your answer, but it doesn't solve my problem. I work in a project that delevops a multi-platform (at the time of writing for DOS, Win32, OS/2, Linux and FreeBSD) messaging client in Pascal. (The source is published but has a proprietary license. ) We use GNU make to build the source on all platforms. (With different Pascal compilers, _not_ with GCC.) We _don't_ use tar but some other archiver. The problem is: We cannot make the sources completely 8+3-clean (for DOS) since on one plattform (Win32 with Cygwin make) in some situations a makefile called "makefile" won't be found. So we have to call the makefile "Makefile". The other platforms (including DJGPP GNU make on DOS witch is also LFN-aware) don't habe the problem. >If you use the appropriate Cygwin tools to archive and unarchive the file then >you won't have a problem. Problems with non-Cygwin tools are not supported. Is that really the last answer? >It would be great if *you* fix that problem. Of course I would submit a patch if necessary. It should be rather trivial. (Not for me. I would have to install the whole Cygwin compiler stuff before being able to do that simple patch to make make also look for "MAKEFILE".) >" who has the Swing in itself, can no more in the equal step march. " Coco >Schumann, Jazzer, survivor of the KZ Theresienstadt Is that good English? If yes I would put it in my .signature in the future. Frank -- "Wer den Swing in sich hat, kann nicht mehr im Gleichschritt marschieren." Coco Schumann, Jazzer, Überlebender des KZ Theresienstadt -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com