From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19937 invoked by alias); 11 Dec 2012 16:27:30 -0000 Received: (qmail 19883 invoked by uid 22791); 11 Dec 2012 16:27:27 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-50.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mho-03-ewr.mailhop.org (HELO mho-01-ewr.mailhop.org) (204.13.248.66) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 11 Dec 2012 16:27:23 +0000 Received: from pool-173-76-51-117.bstnma.fios.verizon.net ([173.76.51.117] helo=cgf.cx) by mho-01-ewr.mailhop.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TiSfx-000DaR-7G; Tue, 11 Dec 2012 16:27:21 +0000 Received: from localhost (ednor.casa.cgf.cx [192.168.187.5]) by cgf.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E99E13C076; Tue, 11 Dec 2012 11:27:19 -0500 (EST) X-Mail-Handler: Dyn Standard SMTP by Dyn X-Report-Abuse-To: abuse@dyndns.com (see http://www.dyndns.com/services/sendlabs/outbound_abuse.html for abuse reporting information) X-MHO-User: U2FsdGVkX19rs00Dmz/MZ3oS+nCjmDK4 Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 16:27:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Pierre Muller , 'Jerome Guitton' Subject: Re: [RFA/mingw32] environment variables are case-insensitive on win32 Message-ID: <20121211162719.GA24352@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Mail-Followup-To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Pierre Muller , 'Jerome Guitton' References: <20121130162852.GD32262@adacore.com> <50B902D0.6060809@redhat.com> <20121203113147.GB12055@adacore.com> <20121209235344.GA12152@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <20121210105115.GB15147@adacore.com> <20121210110128.GA12570@calimero.vinschen.de> <20121210134935.GL31477@adacore.com> <20121210153510.GB17188@adacore.com> <002401cdd6f0$c0b317b0$42194710$@muller@ics-cnrs.unistra.fr> <20121210161831.GH15147@adacore.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20121210161831.GH15147@adacore.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2012-12/txt/msg00342.txt.bz2 On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 05:18:31PM +0100, 'Jerome Guitton' wrote: >Pierre Muller: >>I am not sure, but I have the impression that the case_preserving >>environment of Windows OS is more a shell issue than an OS issue. > >I don't think so, because I see the same problem by using "set env" >from GDB. But it does not matter much. I am now convinced that my >setup is to blame. So I'm happy to withdraw the Cygwin-specific part >of my patch. Thanks. I think that both Corinna and I (the Cygwin maintainers) agree that nothing is broken for Cygwin so there is no reason to institute special handling for it wrt environment variable case sensitivity. cgf