Re: [Mingw-users] Case sensitive make patterns [WAS: autoconf]

[Earnie B. <ea...@us...>]

Quoting Yongwei Wu <wuy...@gm...>:

> 2008/5/1 Keith Marshall <kei...@us...>:
>> On Thursday 01 May 2008 08:26, Yongwei Wu wrote:
>> > Portable to what?  AFAIK, there are two `standards' for Make: the GNU
>> > standard, and the POSIX standard.  Also, if one checks big projects,
>> > one will often see separate makefiles for different flavours of make,
>> > because advanced features of make are never portable.  I do not see
>> > your point.
>>
>> The entire ethos of the autotools is to focus on creating scripts and
>> makefiles which are as portable as practicably possible, to the widest
>> possible spectrum of hosts, without reliance on *any* particular
>> flavour of shell or make.  Using case sensitive only distinctions in
>> makefile rules violates this ethos, even with GNU make, for if you
>> build it with the --enable-case-insensitive-file-system option, (which
>> AFAIK, and correctly IMO, is the way the GNU make folks themselves
>> recommend for use on Win32).
>
> This is not my topic, since I do not use and do not like autotools.
> However, do you have real examples that people use *GNU* autotools
> with *non-GNU* make?
>

When I was active years ago on those lists there were those adding 
support for the likes of CL and LIB.  Insane, maybe, but think WINE on 
Linux and maybe not.

Earnie