From: jalvo AT cloud9 DOT net (John Alvord)
Subject: Re: GNUMAKE help...
28 Jul 1998 03:16:53 -0700
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To: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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EIUUUUW! How delightfully messy! and slow, perhaps?

I didn't realize that GNUmake targets and dependencies could be fully
regular expressions. Is that true?

Thanks for the idea, anyway.

john alvord

On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, Earnie Boyd wrote:

> 
> Create the filename patterns like this
> 
> [Ff][Ii][Ll][Ee][Nn][Aa][Mm][Ee]
> 
> 
> It's messy and hard to read but at least it won't matter which letters
> are lower and which are upper.
> 
> 
> 
> ---"John G. Alvord" <jalvo AT cloud9 DOT net> wrote:
> >
> >  I have spent a couple days trying to use the GNUmake Cygnus binary
> > (19.1beta) and have run into a puzzle I can't solve. If someone could
> > supply a clue, I will be on my way fixing the bug or supplying the
> > needed option.
> > 
> > I am in a NT environment, porting a fairly large UNIX/OS2 make file
> > suite. The last problem seems to be that the make processing does not
> > recognize the  case insensitivity of the NT file system.  I have a
> list
> > of target files, expressed all in lower case ala unix. The files exist
> > on NT but are mostly upper case internally (because they come from a
> > source archive that keeps them in upper case). A pattern rule can't
> find
> > them. When I make a copy of the files involved, and copy one back so
> it
> > has a lower case name... then the pattern rule triggers. I can't just
> > rename them all to lower case because the rename command belives that
> > filename and FILENAME are the same and refuses to do the deed.
> > 
> > I would appreciate any hints.
> > 
> > I have read all the doc, and some of the source (main.c/read.c/job.c)
> > and can't find any references. I am running using MAKE_MODE=UNIX
> because
> > I need the sh.exe facilities.
> > 
> > Thanks for your time!!
> > 
> > john
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