On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 11:32:15AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 05:24:34PM +0200, Christian J?nsson wrote: > >Hmm, I don't quite follow you here. > > > >The PATH variable is not set by me, it's set by cygwin, right? > > > >The PATH contains the entry /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32 but that makes > >no sense if "check_case:strict" is present in the CYGWIN variable > >initialising cygwin, right? > > It depends on whether WINDOWS is the actual name of your directory or > not. This isn't set by Cygwin, regardless. It's set by the system. > If you are going to use strict case checking then it is up to you > to make sure that all filenames are properly referenced. As you > probably noticed, there was no "Make sure all files have proper case?" > option in setup.exe. And, having the DLL actually try to figure out > what case is correct would defeat the purpose of strict case checking. > > I always suggest against using strict case checking. It adds extra > overhead and causes other problems since Windows assumes that it > can be flexible with respect to filename cases. >
I can in a way understand you there, too bad it's conflicting with building gcc with gcj under cygwin. see for example http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java/2002-09/msg00107.html what do you see as the "best" way ahead? Cheers, /ChJ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
