#13343: on Cygwin ECL does not handle case-sensitve paths well
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Reporter: dimpase | Owner: tbd
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-5.3
Component: cygwin | Keywords:
Work issues: | Report Upstream: Reported upstream. No feedback yet.
Reviewers: | Authors:
Merged in: | Dependencies:
Stopgaps: |
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ECLs call
{{{
> (directory "")
}}}
must always return the current directory. On Cygwin, sometimes one gets
NIL. One example is like this: say, a user John has Windows (domain) login
name {{{John}}}, but Cygwin will create for him home directory
"/home/john".
At this point, one might hit the [http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-
specialnames.html#pathnames-casesensitive Win32 case-sensitivity
weirdness], and in particular installation scripts for Maxima spkg will
fail in a subdirectory containing "/home/john". If one switches on case-
sensitivity, as described in the link just cited, the problem goes away.
In a nutshell, while this remains unfixed, avoid building Sage in
directories with names containing capitals. This was uncovered and
mentioned [https://groups.google.com/d/msg/sage-
devel/Gj3cbdcPqKo/h5Ln_9qH0yYJ here].
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