Re: [jamming] GLOB and case-sensitivity

From: David Abrahams (david.abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-02-19 11:50:02

David Abrahams <david.abrahams_at_[hidden]> writes:

> Boost.Jam seems to have case-sensitive GLOB on NT. In other words, if
> I use 
>
> GLOB "." : *.bat
>
> and there's a FOO.BAT in the current directory, the result will still
> be empty. Is this something that's been fixed in Perforce Jam, or
> should it be considered a bug?

Now patched in Boost.Jam CVS to downcase found filenames on NT and
Cygwin before matching against the pattern. An optional 3rd argument
causes downcasing on all platforms. Case-insensitive comparison can
be achieved by lowercasing the patterns before passing them in.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com