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> The Unix version of "make" also violates the convention, in that if no make
> script file is specified on the command line, it first tries to use the file
> "Makefile" as a script, and if that is not available, it tries to use
> "makefile". Needless to say, this can create problems when porting Unix code
> to a case-insensitive OS.

How would this cause a problem?

On the Unix system, only one of the two filenames
will actually be used, and thus only that file needs
to be moved to the new OS.