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Re: Case problems and file permissions on Make
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Case problems and file permissions on Make |
Date: |
Thu, 28 Feb 2002 07:43:11 +0200 (IST) |
On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Omar Al-Kaisy wrote:
> I seem to be having problems with make.exe, and have been
> recommended this address to report bugs to. It seems that if
> I run my makefile (I use the -f flag in case this makes a
> difference), and the makefile basically copies files from one
> directory to another, then a file which is in lower case in
> the source directory becomes upper case in the target directory.
> And the files are copied with writable priviliges only to the
> user and not the group (although I appreciate this may be
> an environment issue).
>
> I am using make version 3.79.1 on a Windows NT4 platform,
> downloaded from the GNU site.
Please tell the exact URL where you dowloaded this port of Make. I
suspect that you are using a DOS port; DOS programs cannot access long
file names on Windows NT, and I think up-casing the file names is a side
effect of this Windows misfeature.