[bug #46304] HAVE_CASE_INSENSITIVE_FS breaks default rules since 3.99.90

[Eli Zaretskii]

Update of bug #46304 (project make):

                Severity:              3 - Normal => 2 - Minor              
                  Status:                    None => Fixed                  
             Open/Closed:                    Open => Closed                 
       Component Version:                     4.0 => 4.1                    
           Fixed Release:                    None => SCM                    
           Triage Status:                    None => Small Effort           

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Follow-up Comment #1:

I don't see any change in built-in rules that could possibly cause this.  I
think the cause is different: Make now sorts the built-in rules in a
consistent, predictable order, and it just so happens that the .C.o rule is
now tried before the .c.o one (and obviously succeeds under
HAVE_CASE_INSENSITIVE_FS).

IOW, that it worked in Make 3.81 was sheer luck, nothing else, an
implementation detail that determined an otherwise undefined behavior.

I have now fixed this in the repository by making COMPILE.C and LINK.C be
synonyms of COMPILE.c and LINK.c when Make is compiled with this option turned
on.

A comment about README.W32: it's not true that we recommend using
HAVE_CASE_INSENSITIVE_FS on MS-Windows.  We just mention this option as one of
those users might wish activating.  I've now modified README.W32 to make this
even more clear.

Thanks.



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