Re: 1.1.6: diff -r porting problem for Windows

[Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo 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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