On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 9:23 PM, Sean McBeth <[email protected]> wrote:
> Windows filesystem is not case sensitive. Well, it can be in some weird > cases, but legacy wise it is not. > It is very good at looking like it's case sensitive, layering the descriptive filenames over the case-insensitive names "under the hood". Certainly, on the Windows side, I've been > Unix file systems absolutely are case sensitive. Your error is not > surprising at all. > I'm not particularly surprised, other than what appeared to be "Private" in Windows really IS "Private" in Linux. It really was a simple cut & paste of the whole directory tree, and the use of case higher up the tree doesn't seem to cause any problem. Must I manually build the directories, and copy just the files? Any ideas of where Windows cruft might hide after the cut and paste? On Apr 18, 2013 9:15 PM, "Patrick King" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I have broken free of Bill Gates' shackles, as I have threatened to do >> for so long, installing Ubuntu alongside Windows >> with fairly minimal drama. >> >> However, when I copied and pasted my existing source code tree over to >> the Linux side, code like this... >> >> #lang racket/base >> ; Source/Project/Private/file-a.rkt >> >> ; We export a function >> (provide f) >> >> (define (f x) (* x x)) >> ; eof >> >> #lang racket/base >> ; Source/Project/Private/file-b.rkt >> >> ; import and use a function >> >> (require "file-a.rkt") >> >> (f 2) >> ; eof >> >> ... leads to errors like this... >> >> /usr/racket/collects/mred/private/snipfile.rkt:324:2: open-input-file: >> cannot open input file >> path: /home/pking/Source/Project/private/file-a.rkt >> system error: No such file or directory; errno=2 >> >> Note that "Private" has been changed to "private". This only happens >> within the cut-and-pasted code. The >> example above works exactly as expected. >> >> Are anyone aware of any Windows/Linux file system quirks that account for >> this behaviour, and how best to fix it? >> >> TIA, Pat >> >> ____________________ >> Racket Users list: >> http://lists.racket-lang.org/users >> >>
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