On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Eric Blake wrote: > > 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.
Right. > 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. Exactly. I use check_case:strict (since I don't like tar, etc, to just silently overwrite unrelated files). One of the workarounds I mentioned was explicitly setting "check_case:relaxed" before running the "prep" step. This was more of a "something to watch for in the future" kind of thing... Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac"