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Re: Cygwin port
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- To: "Jerome Marc" <marcjero at yahoo dot com>
- Cc: <java at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: 27 Apr 2002 12:51:17 -0600
- Subject: Re: Cygwin port
- References: <002f01c1ede0$d1ba0190$0201a8c0@jma1>
- Reply-to: tromey at redhat dot com
>>>>> "Jerome" == Jerome Marc <marcjero@yahoo.com> writes:
Jerome> I read that libjava cannot be built with cygwin because of
Jerome> Windows case insensitive filesystems. I would like to know if
Jerome> anyone tried the environment setting :
Jerome> CYGWIN=check_case:strict
As far as I know nobody has tried this.
Jerome> With this setting, I can compile whole java classes
Jerome> successfully but found any trouble while linking the
Jerome> library. Whithout this setting, the building process stops
Jerome> while compiling Gnu.java.
What exactly happens when linking the library?
Also, how do you configure gcc?
Jerome> I just wonder what are the case sensitivity issues whith
Jerome> libjava.
I don't know of any in libjava. The problem is that the compiler
itself gets confused by the case insensitivity. The Gnu.java build
problem you saw is the symptom.
There's a bunch of discussion of the bug in the mailing list archives.
Now that libgcj has mostly been ported to Windows, I'd think it
wouldn't be too hard for someone (you :-) to fix this gcj bug.
Tom