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Re: 1.1.6: diff -r porting problem for Windows
- To: Satoshi Imai <s-imai at nims dot nec dot co dot jp>
- Subject: Re: 1.1.6: diff -r porting problem for Windows
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 08:50:30 -0500
- CC: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- References: <20010316143903E.s-imai@nims.nec.co.jp>
- Reply-To: Earnie Boyd <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
Satoshi Imai wrote:
>
> Hello.
>
> I found a bug into the diff command.
> The diff -r doesn't ignore upper-case and lower-case of filenames.
>
> *** diff.old/system.h Fri Mar 16 14:11:03 2001
> --- diff.new/system.h Fri Mar 16 13:28:13 2001
> ***************
> *** 224,230 ****
> that are meant to be overridden by hand in config.h as needed. */
>
> #ifndef filename_cmp
> ! #define filename_cmp(a, b) strcmp (a, b)
> #endif
>
> #ifndef filename_lastdirchar
> --- 224,230 ----
> that are meant to be overridden by hand in config.h as needed. */
>
> #ifndef filename_cmp
> ! #define filename_cmp(a, b) stricmp (a, b)
> #endif
>
> #ifndef filename_lastdirchar
>
> ----------------
> Satoshi Imai
>
That's not a bug!! That's the way it works. And, I for one want to
keep it that way. If you wish to add a new switch, say
--ignore-filecase, that would be acceptable.
Earnie.
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