[Mingw-users] Case sensitiveness, Make 3.79, and Make 3.81

[Yongwei W. <wuy...@gm...>]

Hi gurus,

I noticed a change between Make 3.79 and 3.81.  In Make 3.79 I was
able to do the following:

---------------------------------------------------------------------
all: debug

debug: DEBUG DEBUG/test.exe

DEBUG:
	mkdir DEBUG

DEBUG/test.exe:
	...

.PHONY: all debug
---------------------------------------------------------------------

It worked well in Make 3.79.  However, with 3.81 it will complain:

make: Circular debug <- debug dependency dropped.

While I understand it makes some sense on Windows, I doubt whether
there is a way to improve the situation.  Otherwise, one would not be
able to name the target "debug" while having a build directory called
"DEBUG", "Debug", or "DeBuG" ;-).

Best regards,

Yongwei

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