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Re: case sensitivity in make flags
From: |
Matt Rice |
Subject: |
Re: case sensitivity in make flags |
Date: |
Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:49:40 -0800 |
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Nicola Pero
<address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > I think you missed the point i was actually trying to make, the point
> > was that my makefile had been in GNUstep cvs and working for a long time,
> > and then the case of the flag changed, and my subproject then began lacking
> > resources.
>
> Ahm - thanks, I see what you mean now :-)
>
> The issue is related, but slightly different. Your GNUmakefile always had
> xxx_HAS_RESOURCE_BUNDLE=yes, until David changed it to YES on 2008-03-06. ;-)
>
> gnustep-make has always accepted "yes" for the xxx_HAS_RESOURCE_BUNDLE flag,
> since its first introduction in 2002. :-)
>
> But I suspect David was confused by the fact that xxx_NEEDS_GUI (a new flag)
> requires "YES" instead of "yes" - which actually does sound like a bad
> idea (since it's inconsistent with everything else!) and might be worth
> fixing before the release! ;-)
>
> So I'll fix the new xxx_NEEDS_GUI flag to accept "yes" instead of "YES", like
> everything else. Well, maybe I'll have it accept both "yes" and "YES" for
> now.
>
This is good to hear, i was worried we had gotten into a situation
where certain releases
only accepted YES, and others only accepted yes, so it was impossible
to be compatible
with all versions of gnustep-make.