B20 : make bug with filenames in upper case

Michael Hirmke mh@mike.franken.de
Fri Nov 27 19:41:00 GMT 1998


Hi Jean,

>when i try to compile reactos with cygwin B20, make return the following
>error :
>*** No rule to make target 'hal/x86/head.o'
>My system is under windows 95, and the disk has a fat32 partition.
>When i rename the file Head.s to head.s (lowercase), then make find the
>rule correcly.

This is not a bug, but the supposed behaviour.
Unix can distinguish between Head and head and so does make on Cygwin
systems. If you have head.s in your makefile, but the filename is
Head.s, you'll rightly get an error.

Bye.
Michael.
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