Re: [Boost-build] New C++ file type in cpp.jam

From: Sohail Somani (s.somani_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-07-09 17:17:51

Rene Rivera wrote:
> K. Noel Belcourt wrote:
>   
>> On Jul 9, 2007, at 1:39 PM, Sohail Somani wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> K. Noel Belcourt wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I'd like to add a new cpp file type, C, to types/cpp.jam.  Any
>>>> objection if I commit this to the HEAD?
>>>>
>>>> -- Noel Belcourt
>>>>         
>>> What happens on case-insensitive file systems?
>>>       
>> Fair question.
>>
>> I know one flavor of the Mac OS is case-insensitive, case-preserving  
>> so I'm guessing this wouldn't be a problem there.  But to be honest,  
>> I have no idea how many / which other OS's are still case-insensitive.
>>     
>
> Well I think even if the FS is case-preserving it would present a 
> problem. Since it would be likely that any file query ops it does would 
> be indeterminate. But any internal file name matching would be 
> case-sensitive.
>
> Oh, how I wish we didn't have to deal with this... Perhaps we can come 
> up with a set of tests to tell us if we would have problems
Here is one:

// test.C
template<typename T> void doit();

On Windows, that should cause your C compiler to get going.

Sohail