Re: [RFA/mingw32] environment variables are case-insensitive on win32

Christopher Faylor
2012-12-09T23:53:58Z

On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 12:31:47PM +0100, Jerome Guitton wrote:
>Pedro Alves (palves@redhat.com):
>
>> You could do a little setenv/getenv test in gdb itself (and cache the
>> result), much like your little test you posted before, but built in.
>> Use some unlikely environment var name (__GDB_TEST_CASE_SENSITIVITY or
>> some such).
>
>OK; thank you. I'll implement that.

I wasn't entirely sure what was decided for Cygwin but Cygwin
environment variables are meant, like Linux, to be case sensitive.
Please keep that in mind when implementing this. The CYGWIN=upcaseenv
is a special case and not something that you should have to worry about.

cgf