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

Christopher Faylor
2012-12-11T16:27:30Z

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