> This is not an issue with coreutils-5.93, but the coreutils-5.3.0 source > won't extract without a managed mount due to some files that differ only > in filename case in the source tarball. There are workarounds, of course, > but for the future, this is something that needs to be put in the package > announcement, at least.
It was fixed upstream post-5.3.0 because I packaged 5.3.0, noticed the problem, and complained. The only files affected by case clash in 5.3.0 are test scripts, so you can still run configure and make without issues. But I never got errors from tar, even though I was not using a managed mount. My guess is that you must be using an explicit setting of CYGWIN=check_case: that makes tar complain, whereas I don't use that, so I just see tar creating the contents of the second file in the spelling of the first. That's why I never thought to document it as a limitation. -- Eric Blake volunteer cygwin coreutils maintainer
