Sherm, The make command will take the argument typically used to specify a "tag" in the make file, and interpret it to mean the filename of a makefile, if the file exists. Normally, the "INSTALL" file does not get confused with the "make install" command, which means to make the install tag of the default makefile. But because of the case insensitivity of HFS, the 'make install' command gets confused with a file that it's in the Perl bundle called "INSTALL", and says it can't find the makefile directive or some such nonsense.
Well... I hope I've thoroughly confused you. :) -Alex Sherm Pendley wrote: > On Tuesday, June 4, 2002, at 04:44 PM, David Wheeler wrote: > >> Ach. I wonder if we could convince the porters to change the >> distribution so >> that we don't have to do this: >> >> mv INSTALL INSTALL.txt; > > > Perhaps I'm being unusually dense today, but I don't get it. Why do we > have to do that? > > sherm-- >
