Re: Cygwin filename case insensitivity in gcc (Was: patch to viewer/configure.in)

2003-02-25 Thread Michael Nordström
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003, Fringe Ryder wrote: > I was noting the different standards of the environments, not the > quality of developers. Nice try, but the fact remains that most of your message was nothing but an insult against free software developers and that is not the kind of message you should

Re: Cygwin filename case insensitivity in gcc (Was: patch to viewer/configure.in)

2003-02-25 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> Your example is certainly compelling. I would hope that such initial > organizations are rare though; I would expect the initial designer who set > it up that way probably screwed up a lot of other things simultaneously. Projects change, mature, take on other capabilities, and certainl

Re: Cygwin filename case insensitivity in gcc (Was: patch to viewer/configure.in)

2003-02-25 Thread Fringe Ryder
At 12:12 PM 2/25/2003 -0500, David A. Desrosiers wrote: The term "no need to change" isn't a good thing to rely on, however. Anything can happen in the source code tree, things can move around, get deleted, pushed into subdirectories, etc. and if you hard-code the relative path into the so

Re: Cygwin filename case insensitivity in gcc (Was: patch to viewer/configure.in)

2003-02-25 Thread Adam McDaniel
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 09:22:25AM -0800, Fringe Ryder wrote: > At 11:32 AM 2/25/2003 -0500, David A. Desrosiers wrote: > >> Indeed, the Plucker Team has ignored the possibility to build plucker on > >> Windows. > > > >I wouldn't say we've _ignored_ it, just that none of us run > >

Re: Cygwin filename case insensitivity in gcc (Was: patch to viewer/configure.in)

2003-02-25 Thread David Starks-Browning
On Tuesday 25 Feb 03, Robert O'Connor writes: > > Indeed, the Plucker Team has ignored the possibility to build plucker > > on Windows. Who cares? Despite that oversite, it can be done now, > > thanks to Cygwin. (That's why Cygwin exists!) Moreover, it's > > entirely possible that if header-fil

Re: Cygwin filename case insensitivity in gcc (Was: patch to viewer/configure.in)

2003-02-25 Thread Fringe Ryder
At 11:32 AM 2/25/2003 -0500, David A. Desrosiers wrote: > Indeed, the Plucker Team has ignored the possibility to build plucker on > Windows. I wouldn't say we've _ignored_ it, just that none of us run Windows. Yeah! When I ran across Plucker back in September, the Plucker team was very

Re: Cygwin filename case insensitivity in gcc (Was: patch to viewer/configure.in)

2003-02-25 Thread Michael Nordström
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003, David Starks-Browning wrote: > One could ask whether the GCC option "-I/viewer" is > appropriate. There are reasons for why some of these options are included; one reason is to be able to build the viewer in a different directory than the source code is located in. /Mike __

Re: Cygwin filename case insensitivity in gcc (Was: patch to viewer/configure.in)

2003-02-25 Thread Robert O'Connor
> Indeed, the Plucker Team has ignored the possibility to build plucker > on Windows. Who cares? Despite that oversite, it can be done now, > thanks to Cygwin. (That's why Cygwin exists!) Moreover, it's > entirely possible that if header-file-naming was the only impediment > to a Cygwin build,

Re: Cygwin filename case insensitivity in gcc (Was: patch to viewer/configure.in)

2003-02-25 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> Your first impression was better; you missed a provided essential detail. > The solution isn't to hardcode the path, just the relative path of the > project tree... which has no need to change. The term "no need to change" isn't a good thing to rely on, however. Anything can happen in t

Re: Cygwin filename case insensitivity in gcc (Was: patch to viewer/configure.in)

2003-02-25 Thread David Starks-Browning
On Tuesday 25 Feb 03, Adam McDaniel writes: > A question about your solution to fix cygwin. Is it possible to > include a check for that in the configure script? Maybe first check if > we're using cygwin then check if that environment variable is set.. if > not print an error.. That would atleast b

Re: Cygwin filename case insensitivity in gcc (Was: patch to viewer/configure.in)

2003-02-25 Thread Fringe Ryder
At 04:10 PM 2/25/2003 +, Michael Nordström wrote: On Tue, Feb 25, 2003, Fringe Ryder wrote: > In such an environment, it would be understood that plucker/viewer > shouldn't be in the include path. That's a project file; inclusions of it > would look something like: > #include "../view

Re: Cygwin filename case insensitivity in gcc (Was: patch to viewer/configure.in)

2003-02-25 Thread Fringe Ryder
At 10:49 AM 2/25/2003 -0500, David A. Desrosiers wrote: > It's quite normal to have several inclusions with the same filename but > different locations in a project, and that's often outside of your control > completely. My issue with this, if I understand the problem correctly, is that it

Re: Cygwin filename case insensitivity in gcc (Was: patch to viewer/configure.in)

2003-02-25 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> Indeed, the Plucker Team has ignored the possibility to build plucker on > Windows. I wouldn't say we've _ignored_ it, just that none of us run Windows. d. ___ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailm

Re: Cygwin filename case insensitivity in gcc (Was: patch to viewer/configure.in)

2003-02-25 Thread Adam McDaniel
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 04:24:03PM +, David Starks-Browning wrote: > Indeed, the Plucker Team has ignored the possibility to build plucker > on Windows. Who cares? Despite that oversite, it can be done now, > thanks to Cygwin. (That's why Cygwin exists!) Moreover, it's > entirely possible t

Re: Cygwin filename case insensitivity in gcc (Was: patch to viewer/configure.in)

2003-02-25 Thread David Starks-Browning
On Tuesday 25 Feb 03, Michael Nordström writes: > A month from now, you suddenly decide you want to reorganize the file > structure; while we "lousy" open-source developers only have to change > a '-I' compiler directive, you "professionals" will go through all your > source code making these chang

Re: Cygwin filename case insensitivity in gcc (Was: patch to viewer/configure.in)

2003-02-25 Thread David Starks-Browning
On Tuesday 25 Feb 03, Fringe Ryder writes: > In such an environment, it would be understood that plucker/viewer > shouldn't be in the include path. That's a project file; inclusions of it > would look something like: > #include "../viewer/font.h" > > while core system files are obvious

Re: Cygwin filename case insensitivity in gcc (Was: patch to viewer/configure.in)

2003-02-25 Thread Michael Nordström
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003, Fringe Ryder wrote: > In such an environment, it would be understood that plucker/viewer > shouldn't be in the include path. That's a project file; inclusions of it > would look something like: > #include "../viewer/font.h" At first, I thought I should be nice and

Re: Cygwin filename case insensitivity in gcc (Was: patch to viewer/configure.in)

2003-02-25 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> Of course Linux/Unix purists will make the claim that a "real" operating > system (i.e. one with little market share but with case-sensitivity) At what point was the definition of a "real" operating system defined by market share? Linux was developed to produce a "free UNIX" for PCs, no

Re: Cygwin filename case insensitivity in gcc (Was: patch to viewer/configure.in)

2003-02-25 Thread Fringe Ryder
At 10:23 AM 2/25/2003 +, David Starks-Browning wrote: On Monday 24 Feb 03, David Starks-Browning writes: > ... > Unfortunately, I just found a possible "showstopper" with a Cygwin > build. Because Windows is case-insensitive with filenames, gcc finds > plucker/viewer/font.h to satisfy > >

Cygwin filename case insensitivity in gcc (Was: patch to viewer/configure.in)

2003-02-25 Thread David Starks-Browning
On Monday 24 Feb 03, David Starks-Browning writes: > ... > Unfortunately, I just found a possible "showstopper" with a Cygwin > build. Because Windows is case-insensitive with filenames, gcc finds > plucker/viewer/font.h to satisfy > > #include > > instead of Core/System/Font.h from the S