On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 08:26:01AM -0500, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> We'd have to know (or determine at compile-time) whether the compiler
> had this capability

Ok, should be a simple matter of having Configure compile a short C program
which contains two symbols with the same case.  Just like it tests for
everything else.


> We'd then need to test the new default
> on a range of systems, hoping we covered all the compiler versions
> that are likely to be found in the wild.  

No need if you base it on a functionality test above rather than version #.


> When we're done we'd have
> fixed some problems but created others, such as inability to resolve
> symbols when linking against external libraries that were not built
> with case preservation enabled.

This problem I don't quite understand.


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