Re: Building with case-insensitivity

[Earnie Boyd]

<quote who="Paul D. Smith">
> %% "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've been executing configure scripts on Windows platforms for years. 
That is what MSYS is about.  There is no need for a different
configuration system for building Windows versions of any GNU product. 
Other POSIX shell systems such as Cygwin or the Windows version of zsh
could be used as well.


Earnie

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