Bob,

Sorry I was confused by the commit comment `inconsistent path case`. So this was only a bug on case insensitive file systems? 

I’m paranoid as macOS support case and case insensitive file systems and we have had a lot of strange bugs in the past. 

Thanks,

Andrew Fish

On Sep 23, 2020, at 7:59 AM, Bob Feng <bob.c.feng@intel.com> wrote:

Yes. we did test on Windows and Linux.

From the https://docs.python.org/3/library/os.path.html
os.path.normcase(path)
   Normalize the case of a pathname. On Windows, convert all characters in the pathname to lowercase, and also convert forward slashes to  backward slashes. On other operating systems, return the path unchanged.

Thanks,
Bob
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Fish <afish@apple.com> 
Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2020 10:24 PM
To: devel@edk2.groups.io; Feng, Bob C <bob.c.feng@intel.com>
Cc: Liang, MingyueX <mingyuex.liang@intel.com>; Liming Gao <gaoliming@byosoft.com.cn>; Chen, Christine <yuwei.chen@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] [PATCH] BaseTools: Normalize case of pathname when evaluating Macros.

Does this work on case sensitive file systems?
On Sep 23, 2020, at 3:58 AM, Bob Feng <bob.c.feng@intel.com> wrote:

From: Mingyue Liang <mingyuex.liang@intel.com>

REF: https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2880

Currently, When doing the Incremental build, the directory macros 
extended to absolute path in output Makefile, which is inconsistent 
with the output of Clean build.

When we do macro replacement, we can't replace macro due to 
inconsistent path case, which results in inconsistent display of 
incremental build and clean build in makefile.Therefore, the path is 
converted to achieve the correct macro replacement.

Signed-off-by: Mingyue Liang <mingyuex.liang@intel.com>
Cc: Bob Feng <bob.c.feng@intel.com>
Cc: Liming Gao <gaoliming@byosoft.com.cn>
Cc: Yuwei Chen <yuwei.chen@intel.com>
---
BaseTools/Source/Python/AutoGen/GenMake.py | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/BaseTools/Source/Python/AutoGen/GenMake.py 
b/BaseTools/Source/Python/AutoGen/GenMake.py
index 0314d0ea34..b04d3f5436 100755
--- a/BaseTools/Source/Python/AutoGen/GenMake.py
+++ b/BaseTools/Source/Python/AutoGen/GenMake.py
@@ -786,8 +786,10 @@ cleanlib:

   def ReplaceMacro(self, str):
       for Macro in self.MacroList:
-            if self._AutoGenObject.Macros[Macro] and self._AutoGenObject.Macros[Macro] in str:
-                str = str.replace(self._AutoGenObject.Macros[Macro], '$(' + Macro + ')')
+            if self._AutoGenObject.Macros[Macro] and os.path.normcase(self._AutoGenObject.Macros[Macro]) in os.path.normcase(str):
+                replace_dir = str[os.path.normcase(str).index(os.path.normcase(self._AutoGenObject.Macros[Macro])): os.path.normcase(str).index(
+                    os.path.normcase(self._AutoGenObject.Macros[Macro])) + len(self._AutoGenObject.Macros[Macro])]
+                str = str.replace(replace_dir, '$(' + Macro + ')')
       return str

   def CommandExceedLimit(self):
--
2.28.0.windows.1