From: Earnie B. <ea...@us...> - 2008-05-02 14:39:04
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Quoting Keith Marshall <kei...@us...>: > On Wednesday 30 April 2008 20:13, Earnie Boyd wrote: >> Yet another reason why csmake should be the default make for MSYS. > > Sorry, but with respect, I disagree. Makefiles which rely on case > sensitive discrimination of pseudo-targets are BROKEN, BROKEN, BROKEN; > *they* should be fixed. Don't smack the child, when it is the parent > who is at fault. > What about other tools like GCC that use case of the filename to do something different; are they broken even though documented? Case preservation and thus case sensitive patterns are a must and not something to be tossed out because you believe that case insensitiveness is better. Earnie |