On Jul 31 03:28, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > | setup is a Win32 application. It won't know about this. Thou shalt > | not create packages which rely on case-sensitivity as part of the > | net distro. > > That's what I thought. So while managed mounts will no longer be needed > for building, something still needs to be done for the packaging stage. > > So far my idea is to adapt cygport's make_managed_mount[1], but remove > the mount/umount commands. I should also add a postinstall check to > make sure illegal filenames aren't being installed without special > handling.
Illegal? The only illegal chars are slash and backslash, even on case-insensitive mounts. Does it really occur often that you have two filenames in the same dir only differing by case? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat