Re: [Mingw-users] mingw32-make with cmd.exe and ECHO.

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

On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Vincent Belaïche wrote:
>> Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 22:23:52 +0200
>> From: el...@gn...
>> To: min...@li...
>> Subject: Re: [Mingw-users] mingw32-make with cmd.exe and ECHO.
>>
>> > From: Vincent Belaïche <vin...@ho...>
>> > Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 20:43:11 +0200
>> >
>> > What I am meaning is that it seems that something wrong happens when
>> > mingw32-make passes `ECHO. some message' to cmd.exe.
>>
>> What happens is that it doesn't recognize "ECHO.", only "echo."
>> (lowercase).

Nothing has changed this case.

>
> [...]
>
> Well,
>
> I must say that I am not yet in cmd.exe specific issues, but still
> struggling with make using cmd.exe in a strange way.
>
> For instance here is a make file:
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> all:
>         ECHO salut > titi.txt
>         DEL /Q titi.txt
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>

So CAPITAL command isn't going to work.

>
> So my question is the following: why on earth does Mingw32-make thinks
> that `DEL ' is a directory containing a file named `Q titi.txt'. The
> file separator in Windows is not `/' but `\'. It seems that mingw32-make
> plays with changing / to \ just before passing `DEL /Q titi.txt' to
> cmd.exe

Because it hasn't been coded to be case insensitive.  Eli will make it
happen eventually upstream.  When that happens we will release a newer
version.

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