Re: [avr-chat] Re: WinAvr 2005... compile problems

[E. Weddington]

Jeff Barlow wrote:

> "E. Weddington" <address@hidden>  wrote:
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> Make is a Unix creature and was designed to work in an
> environment that used the full 7 bit ASCII code set. The world is
> full of make files that rely on that fact.
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Sure, but in the end, AVR GCC users don't care about *other* Makefiles, 
as all AVR GCC Makefiles are not derived from those older Makefiles.

> We are seeing quite a bit of talk about creating a consistent
> avr-gcc working environment that allows one to move projects
> between *nix and windows tool sets. 
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And that's a *very* good point. I try to make it a point that 
practically all software development tools in WinAVR are cross-platform, 
with the exception being the editor/IDE (because nobody in Unixland 
cares about a cross-platform version; everybody has their own religion) 
and some specific Windows tools such as a text line ending convertor.

> A windows only, uni-case variant of make may be appropriate for
> developing code to run on windows. In a cross platform
> development environment it would only make life harder for most
> of us.
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Yup. My other hope with WinAVR is to introduce Windows users to Open 
Source software that is also cross-platform. If a user is comfortable 
using it on Windows, perhaps they would be interested in using it on 
Linux as well. With something as fundamental as GNU Make, it would be 
better if it behaved the same on both platforms.

Does anybody disagree with that?

This argument alone makes me lean towards a case-sensitive make.

Thanks
Eric