Re: case sensitivity in make flags

[Matt Rice]

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Nicola Pero
<address@hidden> wrote:
>
>  > I think you missed the point i was actually trying to make, the point
>  > was that my makefile had been in GNUstep cvs and working for a long time,
>  > and then the case of the flag changed, and my subproject then began lacking
>  > resources.
>
>  Ahm - thanks, I see what you mean now :-)
>
>  The issue is related, but slightly different.  Your GNUmakefile always had
>  xxx_HAS_RESOURCE_BUNDLE=yes, until David changed it to YES on 2008-03-06. ;-)
>
>  gnustep-make has always accepted "yes" for the xxx_HAS_RESOURCE_BUNDLE flag,
>  since its first introduction in 2002. :-)
>
>  But I suspect David was confused by the fact that xxx_NEEDS_GUI (a new flag)
>  requires "YES" instead of "yes" - which actually does sound like a bad
>  idea (since it's inconsistent with everything else!) and might be worth
>  fixing before the release! ;-)
>
>  So I'll fix the new xxx_NEEDS_GUI flag to accept "yes" instead of "YES", like
>  everything else.  Well, maybe I'll have it accept both "yes" and "YES" for 
> now.
>

This is good to hear, i was worried we had gotten into a situation
where certain releases
only accepted YES, and others only accepted yes, so it was impossible
to be compatible
with all versions of gnustep-make.