Forgot to resolve this ticket.

[[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Sun Dec 15 08:35:49 2002]:

> On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
> 
> > I believe that it's quite dangerous to assume -i on Unixly systems,
> > entirely depending on the order in which the names come up.  Also, the
> > thing to grep for is the full name, so instead of \>, one can use \$.
> > Finally, on Unixly systems, I really want the softlinks to just have
> > the file name as value, not the full path.
> > 
> > I made the attached change, please test it and see if that satisfies
> > your needs.  And also, if you have the inclination, a test on Cygwin
> > would be a good thing (does Cygwin have entirely case-sensitive file
> > names or not?).
> 
> Yes, this patch fixes the problem for installation of man pages on
> DJGPP. I also tested with and without the patch on Cygwin, using the
> latest CVS version of 0.9.7-stable. Cygwin also had the problem of the
> manpage getting clobbered by an attempt to link to a file with a name
> differing only in case. The patch fixes this for Cygwin also. Please
> commit the patch if you don't see any other problems with it.
> 
> Cygwin fails compilation because of a problem with the asm modules in
> crypto/des. Since that seems to be a separate problem, I'll send that
> to rt to generate a new ticket.
> 
> Cygwin file names are case aware, but I am not sure that you can call
> them case sensitive. Cygwin (and Windows) can remember that a file
> is named "FILE.txt" rather than "file.txt", but "rm file.txt" will
> remove "FILE.txt", and the filesystem sees the names as referring to
> the same file. Individual programs can have case-sensitive arguments,
> however. For instance, the man program on both Cygwin and DJGPP is
> case sensitive for arguments. "man ASN1_OBJECT_new" will get the man
> page, but "man asn1_object_new" will return an error that the man page
> does not exist.
>                           Doug
> 
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> Doug Kaufman
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