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RE: [Axiom-developer] Re: upper/lower case issue
From: |
Weiss, Juergen |
Subject: |
RE: [Axiom-developer] Re: upper/lower case issue |
Date: |
Sun, 28 Sep 2003 22:05:39 +0200 |
As I already wrote in a previous mail, the axiom system should
preserve case. The case mangling is done, because the makefile
hands a list of lisp symbols and not a list of lisp strings
to the build-interpsys function. This is easily solvable
with gnu make as indicated in my mail.
Juergen Weiss
Juergen Weiss | Universitaet Mainz, Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung,
address@hidden| 55099 Mainz, Tel: +49(6131)39-26361, FAX:
+49(6131)39-26407
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David MENTRE [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2003 9:49 PM
> To: address@hidden
> Cc: address@hidden; address@hidden
> Subject: [Axiom-developer] Re: upper/lower case issue
>
>
> root <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > The top level makefile builds a custom makefile for each
> target platform.
> > I'll add a CASE= tag so we can pass the information into the build.
>
> Hmmm. I don't like the idea of being system specific. Is it really
> necessary?
>
> If I remember correctly:
>
> - any Unix system (linux, *bsd, solaris, MacOS X with UFS,...): case
> sensitive path and filename
>
> - MacOS X with HFS: no distinction between lower/uppercase, case
> sensitive path
> => no distinct file with filenames different only on lower/upper
> case
>
> - Windows: no distinction between lower/uppercase, case insensitive
> path
> => as previous MacOS X case
>
>
>
> So for me, we have the following requirements:
>
> 1. each source file should have a distinct filename if converted to
> lowercase;
>
> 2. the build process should not modify lower/uppercase of paths.
>
>
> With those requirements, I think we could build Axiom on any current
> system. You opinion?
>
> Yours,
> d.
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