SPAM-LOW: Re: [CMake] Error adding rule using 2.4.1 beta

[Reggie Burnett]

Brad King wrote:
> Reggie Burnett wrote:
>> Brad King wrote:
>>
>>> Reggie Burnett wrote:
>>>
>>>> I've discovered the problem.  the cmakelists.txt files, as they sit 
>>>> on my system, have lowercase names.  When I change them to mixed 
>>>> case (CMakeLists.txt), they work.  Given that Windows is not case 
>>>> sensitive, this is baffling.  I have had SFU installed on this 
>>>> system and it did prompt during install if I wanted to make a 
>>>> system change allowing for case sensitivity but now I can't find 
>>>> any info on turning that off.  Any ideas?
>>>
>>> Windows filesystems are case-insensitive but CMake's internal tables 
>>> that track files called "CMakeLists.txt" are case-sensitive.
>>
>> Perhaps that's something that should be rethought?
>
> The files must be called "CMakeLists.txt" and nothing else.  On case 
> sensitive file systems it makes a big difference.
>
> -Brad
Sure.  I understand the binary attempting to open only files named 
CMakeLists.txt but I guess without a better understanding of how cmake 
does it's work internally, I don't understand the purpose of storing the 
filenames verbatim in some internal tables.  I would think that once the 
files are opened for reading and the contents read, that the binary 
could use any type of marker (directory name for example) to map config 
file to project.  However, like I said, I don't know enough about how 
cmake works internally to be sure.

Thanks for the responses.

Reggie