Re: [bug #41758] VMS Make incorrectly reports archives support present.

[John E. Malmberg]

On 6/6/2014 9:39 AM, h.becker wrote:
> On 06/06/2014 05:28 AM, John E. Malmberg wrote:
> > On 5/31/2014 7:45 AM, h.becker wrote:
> > > On 05/15/2014 05:51 AM, John Malmberg wrote:
> > While I have not checked on VAX, on both Alpha and Itanium the module
> > name can have both upper and lower case in it.  This will mainly show up
> > when the source module is on an ODS-5 volume.
>
> Maybe "mainly". But as we all know, the module name space is separated
> from the file name space. Independent of ODS5 and/or process settings
> like case sensitive mode and/or DECC features for ODS5, for C sources,
> lower case module names will show as soon as someone has a '#pragma
> module lowercase' and compiles with /case=as_is with a recent C compiler.

Agreed, on VMS the module name space is separate from the filesystem.

As pointed out before, GNU make does not have a way to make that 
distinction.  So GNU make can only use case sensitive module name 
comparisons on VMS with ODS-5 support.

It is something that can be looked at for a future enhancement after 
some tests are added for the expected behavior.

Regards,
-John