From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27100 invoked by alias); 14 Jun 2012 22:01:00 -0000 Received: (qmail 27090 invoked by uid 22791); 14 Jun 2012 22:00:57 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_NO X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 22:00:44 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA5201C70E6; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 18:00:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id kISQWNfR4X70; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 18:00:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C8101C72FE; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 18:00:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6C006145616; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 15:00:37 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 22:01:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Michael Hope Cc: Eli Zaretskii , "Joseph S. Myers" , gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [PATCH, doc]: Rename Index node to prevent file collision Message-ID: <20120614220037.GO18729@adacore.com> References: <4FD94EC0.1000009@linaro.org> <83ehphyhdn.fsf@gnu.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2012-06/txt/msg00495.txt.bz2 > Yip. We supply pre-built toolchains for Linux and Windows[1]. The > build is crtosstool-NG based, runs on Ubuntu Lucid, and uses the LSB > compilers for Linux and the mingw cross compilers for Windows. We > cross-make the manuals the same as we cross-build the compiler. I think we do something similar as well. I do not think that this is an uncommon situation when someone works with GNU software on multiple platforms. > The makeinfo manual says: """If makeinfo is run on a system which does > not distinguish case in filenames, nodes which are the same except for > case will also be folded into the same output file.""". I don't think > that's valid here as the index is a special case: we shouldn't merge > the top level index.html with the output of a node called Index. I haven't checked, but is there a command-line option to force that behavior? And I am also wondering why they wouldn't just always make sure that the names are always different, irrespective of casing... -- Joel