Re: Building with case-insensitivity

[Earnie Boyd]

<quote who="E. Weddington">
> Paul D. Smith wrote:
>
>>%% "E. Weddington" <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>  ew> It would sure be nice to be able to add a configure switch to
>>  ew> automatically do this for the upcoming 3.81 release.
>>
>>I'm not sure what you mean by "a configure switch".  As far as I know
>>(and I'm no expert since I don't build/use the Windows port) you don't
>>run configure (which is a POSIX shell script) on Windows; instead you
>>rename the appropriate config.h* file.  So, a configure switch wouldn't
>>help.
>>
>>
>>
> I'm building from the mingw patched version of make, and I'm building it
> in Cygwin (obviously a POSIX environment), using GCC. I'm not building
> using MS's compilers as recommended in that particular README. So, in
> this case, having a configure switch would be helpful, for example:
> -----------------------------------------------
> CC="gcc -mno-cygwin"
> ../$archivedir/configure \
>         --prefix=$installdir \
>         --host=mingw32 \
>         --build=mingw32 \
>         --with-case-insensitive-fs
>         2>&1 | tee make-configure.log
>
> make all install 2>&1 | tee make-make.log
> -----------------------------------------------
>
> And the "--with-case-insensitive-fs" switch would automatically #define
> HAVE_CASE_INSENSITIVE_FS in config.h.
>

What does ``./configure --help'' show?  The MinGW patched set has a switch
similar to that.


Earnie

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