RE: [Axiom-developer] Re: upper/lower case issue

[Weiss, Juergen]

As I already wrote in a previous mail, the axiom system should
preserve case. The case mangling is done, because the makefile
hands a list of lisp symbols and not a list of lisp strings
to the build-interpsys function. This is easily solvable 
with gnu make as indicated in my mail.

Juergen Weiss

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: David MENTRE [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2003 9:49 PM
> To: address@hidden
> Cc: address@hidden; address@hidden
> Subject: [Axiom-developer] Re: upper/lower case issue
> 
> 
> root <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > The top level makefile builds a custom makefile for each 
> target platform.
> > I'll add a CASE= tag so we can pass the information into the build.
> 
> Hmmm. I don't like the idea of being system specific. Is it really
> necessary?
> 
> If I remember correctly:
> 
>  - any Unix system (linux, *bsd, solaris, MacOS X with UFS,...): case
>    sensitive path and filename
> 
>  - MacOS X with HFS: no distinction between lower/uppercase, case
>     sensitive path
>     => no distinct file with filenames different only on lower/upper
>        case 
> 
>  - Windows: no distinction between lower/uppercase, case insensitive
>     path 
>     => as previous MacOS X case
> 
> 
> 
> So for me, we have the following requirements:
> 
>  1. each source file should have a distinct filename if converted to
>     lowercase;
> 
>  2. the build process should not modify lower/uppercase of paths.
> 
> 
> With those requirements, I think we could build Axiom on any current
> system. You opinion?
> 
> Yours,
> d.
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